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Family: Politics and Religion


Two things that you never EVER talk about at family events...politics and religion.  What is so inflammatory about these two systems?  They are truly just that...just systems.  

Economics, politics, education and religion are systems.  Systems can become a stagnate set of rules and legalistic functions. Man-made. Void of true value and belief.

I don't know about you but I learned what I watched, heard, felt and experienced through dynamic relationships.  Values and beliefs were shown.

Those with genuine authentic real active and living values and beliefs taught me through actions.


 Service was shown.

Learning was ignited.

Giving was joyful and freely given.

Care-taking natural.

Loving was a choice.

God was a person with whom to have a relationship.


I did have opposite experiences as well where words said one thing but actions or lack of said another.

Giving was for politicians to force and to be touted as noble while the clenched fist of greed arrogantly controlled everything and everybody.

Service was out of fear and dread and a sense of unworthiness.

Communication was a constant debate where either one was completely indoctrinated or hated.

Loving was an obligation.

God was an excuse or an object lesson.


Family is not just a place to teach values and beliefs and right and wrong.  It is a place to live them out.  Not perfectly but rather in constant give and take of law and grace.  Support and challenge.  Learning and forgiving.  Confronting out of love.  Growing.  Practicing.  



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