Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Jan. 27 Lecture
Though I know this class is based on mountains of research and study, I find myself disagreeing with Tuesday's lecture. Not the whole lecture, but a specific part; strong families need to have spiritual unity. I believe my family is strong, in my mind it is and I think the rest of my family would agree, however we don't necessarily have a spiritual unity. We never went to church (none in our town were sufficient and my parents had had bad experiences) or ever really talked about religion. The only hint of spirituality in our household is the bible my dad reads every morning. It doesn't come up in discussion and I don't feel there is a hole in my life. Is there anyone else who has this predicament?
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I agree that the lecture on January 27th had places of disagreement. My family is very "strong" in my eyes and my families as well. We have nights together that we set aside all work and stressful activities and just hang out, watch movies, go out to eat, etc . Little things like this keep our family together as well as the other characteristics of a Strong Family. But our family does not discuss spiritual things. We do not attend church, don't talk about god, and do not rely on the bibles teachings. It has never been a big deal in our family because we know that if we have each others support then we can make it through anything. We don't need to believe in something higher to get through and enjoy our lives.
I do agree with your comments that a sense of spiritual well being is not a necessity for all strong families. I think it depends all on the family and how they define spiritual well being. For example my family use to go to church but we do not anymore. Both my sister and my mom believe in God while my father and I do not. Listening to the lecture Tuesday doesn't make me second guess that I have a strong family. I know I have a strong family because we possess all the other characteristics. I also think a sense of spiritual well being could mean we as family all believe in certain things like have respect for others. I think having a strong sense of values with in a family could mean having a sense of spiritual well being.
I also agree to what you are saying. The only difference is, we use to go to church when i was a little girl. But once i got confirmed we just stopped going. No one in my family even reads the bible anymore. Yet we are still a strong family and nothing could break us apart. I think the spiritual wellbeing is still there in a since that we use to go, and that your dad still reads the bible, its just not the strongest of our six characteristics. That still doesn't mean we fail as families because we aren't strong any all six. My family still has the love and sharing that leads under the wellbeing as I am sure yours does too.
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