(Stock Image: Deposit Photos) Most of our eight kids are adults now and we are so blessed to have good relationships with all of them - and they all get along with their siblings, too!  Some people ask if they've always been peaceable, and we have to say NOPE. But we found several things along the way that helped shape the sort of family we have today - that's the subject of this episode! References  Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.  (James 4:1-3) "You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD." (God, in Leviticus 19:17-18) “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’" (Jesus, in Matthew 18:15-16) One of our favorite resources: “The Brother Offended Checklist” (Doorposts) SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER