We read a lot of stories. Occasionally there are siblings that are so mean to each other and have overt antipathy – not occasional healthy disputes and normal bickering, but they seem to actually hate each other. This definitely pops up more in contemporary books, and when it happens my kids tend to get upset. I think I've figured out why. We are a tight-knit family; my kids' best friends are their siblings. Because this has been their experience, siblings who don't have shared affection and loyalty feel both foreign and wrong to them. The foreignness pulls them out of the story. And being empathetic people, they feel hurt at the thought of that kind of treatment from their own siblings. These stories are an insidious attempt to normalize dysfunction. My children's relationships with each other is one of the most beautiful aspects of my life, and I am so grateful that we have structured our lives so that this is their reality.

Big brother helping dad with skin on skin contact for his premature twin siblings...❤❤❤

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And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:40

What is Satan’s plan?... To keep women so distraught and distracted that they would never find calming strength and serenity...Catching them in the crunch of trying to be superhuman instead of realistically striving to reach their individual purpose and unique God-given potential.
We must have the courage to fight against this plan and to instead return to the feminine nature which God gave us to really contribute to the world.

•A righteous wife is wealth to the house and salvation to the husband•