It’s been said many times before, but no two families are alike. Your relatives may be loud and crazy, small and introspective, totally conventional, or completely unorthodox, but your family is yours. And, no matter what, your family makes up a huge part of who you are.
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges”, said Elizabeth Berg.
You might not have everything in life but you will always have each other.
You will not always agree on everything but you will always find a way to work things out.
Family will always be there for you in good times and bad times. One thing I have learned is that family doesn’t always mean blood relatives but also people who choose each other and love takes over. Those who cheer you on and have your best interest at heart. Your success makes them happy. I mean those who move from friends to family and you can count on them at any time.
Due to corona virus, quarantine had to take place which forced people to stay home with each other 24/7. Those who quarantined far from their families had to walk long distances so that they can be with their loved ones.
Work had become a thing that spouses saw each other less and the children were left to the house help to raise but the quarantine has made families to spent more time together than they normally would which is really great.
The closing of the houses of worship has restored family altars which had died out because the parents were busy and the children sleep early since they have to wake in the wee hours of the morning and go to school. All the things that kept people busy removed, they went back to God seeking his face more and more and more.
I am not saying “thank God Corona Virus came”, I am saying that the bad situation brought families together and they went back to the roots as to why family is important and what makes it the backbone of the nation. When families are strong, nations are strong too.
Now people like me that live alone or far away from our families, we missed them crazily. We appreciated the presence of people around us. Well, we still are since the situation has not yet ended but I know it will pass away soon.
For me in particular I missed church. I joined Redeemed on 16/01/2005 and they instantly became my family so not going to church made me miss the pastors, the women of faith, the praise and worship team, the youth, the peculiar ladies and all my friends who mean a lot to me.
Church is like a second home to me and being there always 4 days a week praying, worshiping and fellowshipping brought a certain refreshment on my life that I would not easily get from anywhere else. I can’t wait for it to be open again.
The people I met at church became family, though we are not blood related, we are spiritually intertwined, we speak the same language, and we help each other grow physically, economically, spiritually, morally and mentally.
COVID-19 has made everyone appreciate the role of the community in our lives. We all can agree that isolation is not the answer. The more we interact the more we grow and learn from each other.
No man is an island is a proverb that I can only think about in this situation that we all need each other and this achieved through socialisation and interpersonal relationships.
Now if you are tired of COVID-19 like me, it is time to pray harder for it to be kicked out so that we can exercise our freedom again as social beings. Pray like you have never prayed before, fast like your life depends on it because it does anyway.
Family members that have wronged you, it is time to forgive them because we need each other and we win together. We ought to understand that we all have strengths and weaknesses and none of us is perfect as long as we are still dressed with flesh and blood. Forgive and you shall be forgiven.
I urge all of us to focus on nothing else but God and remember, you were created for a purpose. You are important. You treat others with respect and dignity because it doesn’t matter their status, they are as important to God as you are. Love one another. We overcome together.
Yes lady