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CFC Youth for ChristDiscovery Recollection

Talk 2: Sino ang Nagmamahal sa Akin? !ho loves "e?#

$% $ntro&uction

In the beginning when God created human beings, He made them to be likeHimself. He created them male and female blessed them and said, “Have manychildren, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.”

This was the beginning of family. Family was so imortant to God that when Hesent His only son to redeem us, !esus "hrist was born of #ary by the ower of the Holy$irit and was raised as the son of !oseh.

In essence, God takes care of us through our arents. %ur arents nurture us,

love us, feed us, teach us, and take care of our needs according to their caabilities.&arents who know God introduce us to God's teachings and ways.

%ur arents suort us through our growing u years and lay a ma(or role informing our character. )s we grow to be more mature and resonsible, we are able totake care of ourselves. )s we finish our education and become more indeendent, weare reared to start and suort our own family. )nd the cycle continues.

God commands us to resect our father and mother. This is the idealrelationshi of arents and children according to the lan of God.

$$% The Situation !here Families Fin& Themselves To&ay%

*. &arents and children send less time together to communicate and build a lovingrelationshi with one another.

• +oth arents have fulltime (obs to meet the financial demands of the family

• There are many distractions at home which comete with time for ersonal

interaction among family members, such as T- and comuters give moree/amles0.

1. -alues which we normally learn from our families are being relaced by valuesdictated by e/ternal factors2

• advertisements which foster materialism

• eer ressure due to the desire for accetance

• Television which arove of casual se/, early relationshis and vices as

sources of leasure

3. #isunderstanding and #iscommunication between arents and children due to fearsbrought about by an increasingly dangerous environment.

• &arents are sometimes too strict and children rebel



• "hildren kee their activities from their arents and when the arents find out, it

creates another cycle of misunderstanding.

• )nger e/ressed by both arties aggravate the situation and block

communication between them.

4. &arents' demand for ersonal e/cellence and erfection fosters an atmoshere of cometition among siblings. This causes resentments among them esecially whenthey erceive biases or favoritism on the art of the arents.

5. There is an increasing number of broken families that roduce broken and hurtingeole who are afraid to love and receive love and to trust eole.

$$$% 'ffects on the (ives of Young )eo*le an& Their Family Relationshi*

*. 6ebellion and 7isobedience bring you farther away from your arents and deriveyou of an imortant source of wisdom to guide you in your growing u years.

1. 6efusing to communicate with your arents causes loneliness, an/iety, and

confusion, It drives you to look for friends who may symathi8e with you becausethey have the same roblems and (ust contribute to the roblem by affirming yourfeelings rather than hel you seek a solution.

3. 9ou may seek out a girlfriend:boyfriend believing that they can take you out of yourfamily and rovide you with a erson whom you can love and will love you back.;nfortunately, these are temorary measures that may comound make yourroblems because you are not emotionally ready to enter into a relationshi withanother erson. 9our emotional vulnerability makes you rone to remarital se/ andearly and unwanted regnancy for young women.

4. 9ou may take it out on your younger siblings and cause constant <uarreling and

bickering with them. This further isolates you, making you lonely and afraid.

5. 9ou may run away from your roblems and seek to forget them or to want to rove toothers that you are in control by engaging in selfdestructive activities drugs,alcohol, remarital se/, vandalism and violent acts0.

R'"'"+'R: =hen you engage in harmful activities out of rebellion and disobedience,you not only hurt your arents, 9%; )>$% H;6T 9%;6$?>F and you suffer theconse<uences of your own actions, comromising your hainess and your future.

$,% Claiming ,ictory in your Family (ife%

*. )ccet your arents and make a decision t love them unconditionally. 6ememberthat your arents love you and they do many things out of concern rather than site.

1. &arents are not erfect so do not e/ect a erfect relationshi. $ome arents havebeen broken during their childhood and may be e/eriencing brokeness in theresent relationshi. )cknowledge their shortcomings but make a decision not to belike them.

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3. +e oen in your communication with your arents. $trive to make them understandyour confusion and loneliness and fear. +e honest and do not kee secrets fromthem. Trust them because arents only want the best for you.

4. )cknowledge your faults when you make a mistake. There is no need to bedefensive. =hat is imortant is the reali8ation that you caused someone else to be

hurt and that you are sorry.

5. Forgive your arents for the hurts they have caused you. )void the temtation ofalways feeling like the aggrieved victim. %ften, young eole tend to magnify eventhe small comments arents make. 6eact aroriately to a situation and do notcarry the burden. 7o not ile u resentments for ast hurts.

@. #ake a decision to be a loving resence in your family esecially to your brothersand sisters. &erservere and be consistent in your decision to love and accet themunconditionally esecially during trying times in your relationshi.

A. 7ecide to be hay. )s you go through life, there will always be difficult times.

6emember that all roblems have solutions and you only have to work at it. 9ou canchoose to be miserable everyday, or you can choose to learn from the situation andremain otimistic that you will eventually resolve your differences.

B. Firm u your commitment to God. &ray for the family, that the >ord may guide all themembers in the ways of building u the relationshis. #ake God your source ofstrength.

,% Conclusion

God is enough. If we seek our wholeness in Him, He will give us the grace to imroveour relationshi with our arents, brothers and sisters.

God has a beautiful lan for our families. %ur family is the building block for our futurefamilies. ;nless we are able to build loving relationshis with our arents, it will bedifficult for us to build lasting relationshis with other eole.

Co one is erfect. There are no erfect relationshis. %ur relationshi with our familieswill not always be erfect. However there are erfect moments with them, #omentswhen we laugh together, we have fun together, when we are there to suort each other in times of need. &erfect moments to look forward to, because we know that after thedarkness, God will bring us to the light.

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)RAY'R F-R .'A($N/ -F FA"$(Y R'(AT$-NS.$)S

>ord God, you are our Father in heaven. 9ou gave us our arents to take care of us and to love us here on earth. +less our family relationshi. $end your Holy $irit toinsire us and to guide us as we grow in wisdom and understanding. %en our heartsand minds that we may see you in our arents. That we may remember that you gave us

life through them. Hel us to love unconditionally.

Heal our brokenness and make us whole again. Give us the grace to forgiveeach other for the hurts that we have caused. Forgive us for our sins esecially for thetimes when we have been rebellious and disobedient. Hel to grow in trust andconfidence in your great lan for us and fi/ our eyes on !esus esecially during difficulttimes.

This we ask through the mighty name of your $on, !esus "hrist. )men.

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