Family Gatherings

  Missing loved ones, unrealistic giving and receiving expectations, financial pressures, and excessive self-inflicted commitments cause us to enter the anxiety and stress twilight zone.  Our family gatherings can be fun, energizing, and exciting festivities or they can end with us feeling overwhelmed, depressed, and exhausted.  The social groups, baking, family intimacy, or lack of these things and people can … Read More

Family Love

Love for family should not be rooted upon self-love. We should love and respect ourselves enough to love, appreciate, and respect the differences in others. Love can be define as: Loving (L) others (O) value (V) for ever (E). Remember each member of the family has his/her unique size, age, shape, dreams, goals, personality, character and lifestyle choices. Our love … Read More

Family Balance

  We all want to give and receive loyalty, respect, and acceptances to and from our spouses, siblings, children, and parents. We want to be successful within our careers, communities, and we want to be faithful within our churches and homes. The challenges we must face ongoing Family Balance: Leave work issues at work on the other hand don’t take … Read More

Family Fitness

Family Fitness is a great way to strengthen family’s unity and maintain healthy lifestyles in a non-competitive environment. Toolkit- Let us use our imagination to implement an Exercise Toolkit that can be used during your Family Fitness activities. Household utensils- kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, recreational room Cars- car doors, spare tire, flashlights, Garden tools- rake, lawnmower, shovel, hoes, garbage … Read More

Family Prayer

There is a saying that a family who prays together stays together. A spiritual building block within a family is prayer. A healthy family, home environment, and life survival strives on family members praying individually and collectively continuously. The benefits of family prayers: Family support- as you each release your deepest hurts. Family encouragement- as you go through physical or … Read More

Family Love

” But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever” (1 Timothy 5:8, ESV). Each family member has an obligation through Christ to love each other. How can each family member illustrate love towards each other? First, we can be polite throughout … Read More

Family Insurance

Family insurance (medical, dental, vision, auto, life) can be costly in relation to deductible amount.  The insurance plan offers us two types of deductible (embedded or non-embedded). If we choose the embedded amount, then we have individual deductible for each family member and the family deductible. On the other hand, if we choose the non-imbedded amount then we only have … Read More

2021 Luggage: Family

This year instead of claiming that we will treat our family members better and spend more time with them, let us declare that we are going to walk in love and learn from our ongoing interactions with family members. This will allow us to learn through our examination of our responses to various situations.  This helps us to grow in … Read More

New Years: Family Love

Happy New Year New Year: Family Love Family, we are leaving the year 2020 behind and entering 2021. Our expectations for the new year can be overrated with our man-made visions of materialistic visions or underrated with the images of our family expectations and enduring COVID-19. As we look at the photo taken of loved one’s last year, let us … Read More

Merry Christmas

  The Caroling Medley Do you feel like singing a medley?  well, come on in and sing along Looking for some holiday music, check out and purchase some of our inspirational music songs by Byron, D. Weems https://wonderfullymadeinc.com/music-2/ #merrychristmas #thecarolingmedley #inspirationalmusic