Over the years I've attempted to update "The Family" tree, checking through the Ancestry family line.
Besides my own 3 grown- up children (Lorraine, Amanda & Terence), I have (at least) 3 sisters (Carole, Angela & Sheree) and 4 brothers (Colin, Nigel, Malcolm & Leroy).
My brother Colin is at this time updating his own family line, we are both fathers, grand-fathers and great-grand-fathers!
But the Ancestry software doesn't cope too well when a family history gets to be as complex as ours is!
It's not (so much) that we are a dys(*DIS)-functional family unit, but more like, DIS-enfranchised (by our correct surnames), DIS-jointed & DIS-inherited (by having different fathers, some out of wedlock), DIS-figured (by age, incident & accident) DIS-informed (by parents & the elder generation), so will I DIS-guise being a little DIS-gruntled, do I DIS-honor my mother & father, do I DIS-miss my "part" brothers & sisters and are we DIS-illusioned by LIFE, no, not an iota.
Although, had we been conceived as it is, in this present world of liberation and abortion, I doubt if my family tree would exist!
From time to time there are a few poor (in morality) decisions by Government that seem to me, to be a kind of DIS-order, but our God, who knew us before we were born, can make the bad things good again, He is the Father of the Fatherless & we are in His Hands, so DIS is the life, and if you read this you can thank God for His many Blessings.
* ("DIS" at dysfunctional is a (cheat) word-play spelling!)
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I love the play on "Dis" - check the spelling on incident - did you want to keep "dis" even for dysfunction?
I do thank God. I find it amazing that I was in the minority when I first went to school and came from a "broken" home...then 20 years later, my children are in the minority because they have both biological parents living in the same home - they actually felt left out because their friends got more at Christmas!
Well written.
Thank you Amanda, I have amended both.
well thought out Tez.
thought is the food of life.
life is the food of living.
we have no control on the life we are born into,it`s how we live that life that counts.and i think
we have done OK.
Well put Cosmo, we're all in a RACE (The Human Race) It's not how we start but how we finish.
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