Yesterday afternoon, with a sink full of dishes, laundry needing to be done, and supper needing to get started, but I sat quietly on the floor. As I sat on the floor big sister brushed my hair. I had thousands of things I needed to be doing, but none of them was as important as spending time with her. Needless to say we ordered pizza for supper.
Every time I make time out of my day to do something she wants to do. I’m strengthening our bond of fellowship. I am still my daughters number one teacher and disciplinarian, but because of the bond that we have I don’t worry that when I discipline them that I’m going to alienate them. Each and every day I work at tieing strings of fellowship. I play games with them, sing, read stories, but I not only do fun things I include them in my work. They help me put clothes away and do the dishes, to them it is a game because we sing songs and talk about colors and see how high we can count. Big sister is already very familiar with colors and can count to nine.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 says:
9) Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
10) For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
11) Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? (I like this verse by morning both of our girls are in our bed. It is nice to know that it is biblical.)
12) And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
I think these verses apply doubly for families, this is part of the reason I love large families. I’m the oldest of six children with a half sister who is 6 years older then me. Let me assure you that when we all get together the laughter and the jokes never stop rolling. Growing up it was always amazing to me how much we could all accomplish when everyone pitched in to help, we were/are a force to be reckoned with.
