Tonight was the wedding. It was beautiful, as all weddings are, and it gave me just the right amount of warm fuzzies.

It also got me thinking more about family.

Family isn’t always a matter of blood-relations and sharing genes. Family is being committed to each other no matter what. It’s saying, “You are my child, no matter what. Nothing you can do will ever change that. You may break my heart but you will never ever stop being my son or my daughter.”

I believe the same applies to the family of God. Nothing I will ever do will ever cause me not to be a child of God. I may grieve God’s Spirit, but I will always be His. And He will always be mine.

One last thought: if God can forgive the worst in me, who am I to deny forgiveness to anyone? What has anyone ever done to me that even comes close to what I have done to God?

So that’s it. Family is all about loving each other no matter what and learning to be good forgivers because we each have been forgiven much.