Oooops

Totally forgot to write a post on last week's class, sorry!

Last week we talked about the family systems theory and what genograms can tell us about our family relationships and patterns we can find from them. Following the preparation assignments that Bro. Williams put up for us to do, among them was to start thinking about what types of relationships we have with our family members. Mine was fairly easy because of the distance that me and my siblings have from my dad-- a solid brick wall of communication. For the relationships with my siblings and my mom our levels of communication and our overall relationship is content and open-- a dashed line.

Then I made a very interesting observation while attempting to draw my entire family genogram; something that I kinda knew all along in my heart, but kinda refused to believe. I figured out that entirely on my dad's side of the family are full of divorce, infidelity, children out of wedlock, even crime in some cases. Talk about a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah in my own family- but then again who am I to judge, right? Then on my mom's side are marriages that have lasted until death and basically the opposite of the other side. It makes me wonder if both of their social classes affected the way that they both turned out and eventually raised both of my parents?

Of course, looking back at the things that both family sides have gone through, I can certainly learn from them. Especially not to do most of the things that they did that resulted in families being separated and children growing up as emotional messes and following in their parent's footsteps; like some of my scandalous cousins. Again, I'm no one to judge them. They are my family after all and for some reason the Lord put them in my life-- to learn from their mistakes so that I raise my own family in a much better privileged way.

Seriously though, I cannot express the words of gratitude I have for this class. I'm learning so much about not only myself, but my own family.