Who can ever forget the immortal words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill: " We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." Does this sounds like many of your family vacations?
What is it about our families? We love one another and we drive each other crazy at the same time. A great illustration of that is my all-time favorite TV show, "All in the Family," which featured love, loyalty, dysfunction and feuds from that adorable dingbat Edith Bunker, her irritating and obnoxious (and biblically misquoting) husband Archie to their children; Gloria, the emotional feminist and the ultra-liberal and intellectual son-in-law Mike "Meathead" Stivic. Who was or is the meathead or dingbat of your family? Can it be us?
A better question is who or what do you turn to resolve your family feuds? How do you resolve conflicts, understanding that Archie Bunker is not the paragon of conflict resolution? If you've inhereted dysfunction and conflict as a family trait, then yes your hill may be higher to climb. What is your roadmap then to success? Surpise, I take you to the maker's manual- the Word of God for the blueprint of a successful family- beginning with the foundation of that structure- marriage. Proverbs 1 tells us that we are to "hear our father's instruction and forsake not our mother's teaching (Pro. 1:8-9)," which begin with the fear and understanding of the LORD.
If 2 Tim. 3:16-17 is again true, and the Bible is all-sufficient and all-authoritative ( 'that the man of God would be perfect or complete for every good work'), then it is a sufficient and profitable manual for the family and it's success.
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