My Family Doesn't Do That

My family is awesome.  Yeah we have some dysfunction.  Any human fam does.  But at the end of the day, we all love each other and will hold each other down when trouble comes.  My wife's family is like my family on turbo.  They help each other so much and so quickly that I can't even get my Pops on the phone before her dad or brothers are there with the right tool for the job.  They live for each other and it's a beautiful thing.

We are about to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary.  As we've been learning to be roommates as well as husband and wife, I notice we say this a lot: "Well my family doesn't do that".  My family is different from yours and we don't do that.  We come from separate backgrounds and we react to situations differently.  Usually the way our family handles stuff is how we will.  My family doesn't do that so I don't do that.

When I got a real relationship with God, the closest I'd felt to him was like a son.  We have a father-son thing going on. When I learn about my Father and the way his family does things, that's my fam too.  So when I'm just about to have at it with a bottle of Jack, or talk poorly about my wife in front of a crowd, or keep that $50 bill one of my clients mistook for a $20, He reminds me:  My family doesn't do that.