Article May 11, 1974 Issue

Finding Family Unity

RONALD BALLARD

I was driving home after a day of appointments with parents and teen-agers who were concerned mostly with strained family relationships.

As I thought about the day's conversations, and watched solitary figures walking down the streets of my favorite city, I knew the time had come to find a purer and broader sense of family. It had to be one that would foster respect for the spiritual individuality of its members, as well as one that would find room in its heart for more than just the "relatives."

The words of Christ Jesus rang in my thought over and over: "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matt. 23:9; Here was the answer! By accepting the fatherhood and motherhood of God we find not only our true parentage but our brotherhood with our fellowmen. How incredibly simple that is! Yet many are quite familiar with those words and still face family hassles. What keeps us from living these spiritual facts of being? Isn't it really a false, personal sense of creation?

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