Family Matters

Many times, if it wasn’t for family matters, our lives would be void of stress and drama.  Can I get an amen!  Think of the boredom that could set in.

Today’s families, for the most part, are a bag of mixed nuts, and some bolts; not all fitting together but sharing a common thread of either bloodline or addresses.  Or some other link perhaps through marriage, divorce, and the like.  The family of today is not cut and dry simple like the olden days of Mom, Dad, Children (as my cousin would say), Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins.  Family matters are much deeper and more confusing today.  

Apart from the nuts and bolts, many times a family could be compared to the junk drawer.  We all have one, whether it is an actual drawer or just a bucket or spot, we all have a place where we pitch everything we don’t know what to do with.  Nothing in the junk drawer goes together, it is just a bunch of buried treasure we can’t seem to part with, a piece of something we don’t want to lose, a broken part, or something we have no idea where it came from but know the minute we toss it in the trash we will need it like our life depended on it.  

If you have a family matter and not quite sure how to handle it, never throw in the towel.  Put it in the junk drawer for safe keeping, the answer will come to you one day.  Or, pitch it in with the nuts and bolts and something will eventually fit together to make sense of it all.

Because no matter what, family matters.