Getting Closer to the God-Given Gifts Called “Your Siblings”

Today I just felt driven to speak to those of you with siblings. I feel that American culture right now says that siblings should hate each other most times and love each other only when conditions are favorable. This problem keeps me up at night– seriously.

So I really want to encourage those of you with siblings to make these accommodations in your lives. It will make your relationships with one another so much better.

1. Spend a summer together.

I will never forget the summer I spent with my younger sister. I was at that strange preteen age at the time, which made it hard for me to get along with anyone. Mom, however, was not going to take that from me and had me spend every day in my younger sister’s room while she was napping. She also had my younger sister follow me everywhere all day, every day all summer. I appreciate my mom doing that so much now, because without that summer, I’d probably never have become best friends with my sister.

Plan summer crafts to do with your siblings. Go to the pool. Write stories together. Play Pikmin 3 on your Nintendo Switch. Talk about totally random things that make you laugh. It is so much fun when you become friends with your siblings.

2. Make the mutual decision to love one another.

Pray together as siblings that you can begin to love each other. Me and my siblings had to do that at a point, and I have never looked back and said, “I wish I hadn’t done that.” Period.

3. Plan a night together.

Me and my siblings are quite diverse as far as age range goes. The youngest in our bunch is nine years old and the oldest seventeen (as of April 2022). Yet we don’t care when we are together. We laugh, we talk frankly about God, and we pick apart media like critics. We have fun. Our Sibling Hangouts Night is every Friday night, and that is the night when we stay up and have the most fun ever. We’ve been having them for about two years now, and I am so glad we decided to begin the tradition.

Those are the things I really wanted to share with you today. I want you guys to have a deep and memorable relationship with your sibling(s), but if you don’t make the choice to begin loving one another, how can you ever?

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‘K, bye!

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