You can’t choose your Family. God knows that. Read this it may help you understand 🙏

Our love of God is a response to God’s love for us. Just as we love our earthly parents in response to their love for us, we love our heavenly Father. Hopefully, we also love our siblings, even though we sometimes have disagreements. In this passage, we are challenged to love our brothers and sisters in Christ despite how we might differ. God loves all of his children and expects the same of us. Little children get this; we adults have a problem with it. In the play “South Pacific,” there’s a song about hating others that says that hatred needs to be taught. It’s not something that comes naturally. Children are curious about people who don’t look or talk the same way they do. In Haiti and again in Africa, children wanted to touch my skin and my hair because it was so different from what they say every day. But they weren’t afraid of me, and they didn’t hate me. They were open, friendly, and, as they came to know me better, affectionate. They had never been taught to hate others. The wider the circle of life becomes, the more we interact with people of different races, creeds, and ethnic backgrounds. Do we act with the curiosity of children or fear? John tells us in this letter that if we fear, we don’t yet have perfect love because love cancels out fear. Maybe the key is to get to know others better and then love them even if we don’t like everything we find out. And we might be surprised! After all, we don’t like everything about our family members and our friends. We may love them even if we don’t like them. When we look at the faces of others, we are looking at the beginning of God. Let’s remember Jesus’ command, “Love one another.” 🫠