{"id":3388,"date":"2023-09-14T19:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T00:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T00:57:40","slug":"family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/09\/family\/","title":{"rendered":"Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about family lately.\u00a0 Five of my favorite quotes on family have surfaced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.\u201d\u00a0<em>\u2014 Poet, Ogden Nash,<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.\u201d\u00a0<em>\u2014 <\/em><em>German Philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.\u201d\u00a0<em>\u2014 <\/em><em>Comedian, <\/em><em>George Burns<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cFamilies are like fudge\u2014mostly sweet with a few nuts.\u201d\u00a0<em>\u2014 <\/em><em>Comedian, <\/em><em>Les Dawson. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cFamily: like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of family, I was looking through some old family pictures recently and found a family Christmas picture from the early 1960s.\u00a0 In the picture were my grandparents, my parents, my aunt and uncle and their two kids (my cousins), my younger brother, and me. \u00a0Several facts came to me as I studied the picture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As of last month\u2019s two deaths, everyone in the picture is deceased except me.<\/li>\n<li>My family is all in heaven thinking I didn\u2019t make it.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m glad to be the \u201clast man standing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>How blessed I was to have such a family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it was written about the \u201cfamily of God\u201d it certainly fits our \u201cfamily \u201c when Paul says, \u201cindividually members of one another\u201d (Romans 12:5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about family lately.\u00a0 Five of my favorite quotes on family have surfaced: \u201cA family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Poet, Ogden Nash, \u201cIn family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}