Family!?

Sooo, you call yourself family!
I wonder if anyone really knows what that means anymore. To some it means the closest people to your heart, the ones you can lean on in happy times as well as times when you are completely broken hearted! They do not have to be blood relatives, but people who constantly lift you up, instead of tear you down. They are right by your side holding your hand in times of sadness, when you have no idea what to do next and are completely paralyzed at the thought of moving forward for fear of what it may hold.

To others, IT SEEMS, Family are the people that you take all your LIFETIME issues out on! Even though it is they who cannot move past them. How small and mindless are individuals who in times of great sadness for a WHOLE family they feel it necessary to tear someone down farther. Because they themselves are too immature in their emotions to admit that they too are scared and sad.

Unfotunately for those individuals life will be a lonely road. They may say " I don't need so and so." But you bet ur buns when they need something they will be knocking on so and so's door. People like this will never know what real peaceful happiness is. Because for them they do no wrong and they are always the victim! They cannot look themselves in the mirror without being disgusted. They have to focus on EVERYONE else's flaws, while ignoring their own. It's easier and doesn't hurt as much to focus on someone else. They will probably never see the hurt, pain, and destruction they cause with their selfish words and actions. I'm not judging these people, I am just sad and sad for them. I don't pity them because they have created their own personal hell all on their own. Selfishness, self - destruction, denial, and pride will cause nothing but unhappiness on the person acting in this manner. And causing destruction everywhere else!

I have been on both sides of this coin, and that is the reason I can talk about it. I have been unable to look myself in the mirror that is why I can EASILY recognize it in someone else. Along with ALL the nasty characteristics that go along with avoiding self examination. It's a selfish thing not to want to change and to self - destruct.

Matthew 7:1-5 says:
Judging Others
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye