The Family of Man
Posted: Tuesday, October 18, 2011
by Dianne Lehmann
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If you believe the evolutionists (and the creationists for that matter), despite the claims of mathematicians to the contrary (many of them think that there has not been enough time for a single celled organism to evolve through mutation and natural selection into say a worm [let alone us] based on how long the physicists say the universe has existed and the earth come into being), we are all of us most likely related to each other. That's one incredibly huge family. Is it any wonder we go to war from time to time; family dynamics being sometimes contentious and often very complex.
It's pretty clear that the definition of family is changing. Once it meant merely one male parent, one female parent and their children living together as a unit (okay, sometimes the grandparents were mixed in there as well). These days it is more likely to include single parents, biracial couples, blended families, unrelated individuals living cooperatively and homosexual couples among others. I've always thought of our little threesome as a basic family unit.
For me, a family is the place that you are safe and accepted just as you are. It's where you can be who you are and have the opinions that you do without being judged cruelly for them. It's where you can laugh and be laughed at without giving offense or taking it. It's the comfort you seek at the end of a trying day, or any day for that matter. Family is a refuge from the mundane built upon the mundane and sustained by the mundane. It's the place you think of when you need help. Enfolded within it is where you want to be when you are feeling ill. Family picks you up when you've fallen down and holds you in its heart even when you are far away or have strayed. Family is the unquestioning home that you can always, actually, return to.
I am blessed that I have, in reality, a very large family. I look at it this way. There is my family, my close family, my closer family and my closest family. It doesn't matter that all of its members might not see it the same way that I do. Family is as family does and I do it just fine.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)Interesting article Dianne, thanks for sharing your thoughts of family.Hi David.
Thank YOU for reading it!
Hugs,
Dianne
Lovely words, Dianne. Family is definitely an umbrella which can shelter and care for all.Hi DM.
And family can be as big or as small as you like. :)
Thanks for reading!
Hugs,
Dianne
I love and thus include you in a cosmically larger subset family Venn diagram:
http://paulschroeder.wrytestuff.com/swa781298-Family-Of-Man-Evolution-And-The-Human-Genome-Project.htmHi Paul.
I've no doubt we are related!
Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs,
Dianne
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