There's Hope for Your Family Yet // How to Stop Your Family from Falling Apart, Part 4

<p class="p1">With families falling apart left, right and centre, it’s all too easy to look at our family and imagine that it’s beyond the point of no return. But that doesn’t have to be the case. God is on your side – and the time to act, to bring your family back together isn’t tomorrow. It’s… now!</p> <h4> </h4> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;">Forgive Past Wrongs</span></h4> <p class="p1">Here’s the thing about the people in our families. We generally know them better than anyone else does. Why? Because we live with them. Most of us can put up a facade that will fool people out there – but none of us is capable of maintaining that façade 24/7 – at home. Eventually, at home – who we really are, comes to the fore.</p> <p class="p1">The people in our families, know our strengths and weaknesses like nobody else. You may listen to my smooth voice and imagine that I have it all together. My wife could tell you otherwise. I try my best, but I’m far from perfect, just the way that you’re far from perfect.</p> <p class="p1">So – we see all the strengths and weaknesses of the other members of our family. But because we live with these people, their weaknesses and failures and limitations – even just their differences, the ways in which they’re different from us – become like Chinese water torture. Here’s how Chinese water torture works.</p> <p class="p1">Back in the 15<span class="s1">^th</span> and 16<span class="s1">^th</span> centuries Christianityworks, AD, they would tie a subject down, immobilise him, and then drop water on his forehead.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> They’d vary the timing and intensity without warning, and this would go on for days. Eventually, it felt like there was a brick falling on the victims head – it became completely unbearable. </p> <p class="p1">It was the constancy, repetitiveness and unpredictability of the drips that caused the victim such great distress.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Just simple small drips of water became totally u