TRAITS OF A HEALTHY FAMILY

• The healthy family communicates and listens.
• The healthy family fosters table time and conversation.
• The healthy family affirms and supports one another.
• The healthy family respects one another.
• The healthy family teaces respect for others.
• The healthy family develos a sense of trust.
• The healthy family has a sense of play and hmor.
• v has a balance of interaction among members.
• The healthy family exhibits and fosters a sense of shared responsibility.
• The healthy family teaches a sense of right and wrong or morals.
• The healthy family is were family ritual and traditions abound.
• The healthy family does ot neglect their human spiritual aspects.
• The healthy family respects the privacy of one another or its boundaries.
• The healthy family values service to each other and the fellow man.
• The healthy family admits to and seeks help with problems.

You have the RIGHT to receive respect from your mate.

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect..." (1 Peter 3:7)

You have the RIGHT to a relationship of mulual submission."Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." (Ephesians 5:21)

You have the RIGHT to speak the truth in a loving way.

"...Speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him Who is the Head, that is Christ."

You have the RIGHT to express anger in an appropriate manner.

"In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry."(Ephesians4:26)

You have the RIGHT to report abuse to govermental authorities.

"Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men"...who are sent by Him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right." (1 Peter 2:13-14)

You have the RIGHT to leave an abusive environment.

"The prudent see danger and take refuge but the simple keep gi and suffer for it."(Proverbs 27:12)

You have the RIGHT to spend peronal time alone.

"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where He prayed." (Mark 1:35)

You have the RIGHT to use your unique talents and gifts to serve others.
center>"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." (1 Peter 4:10)

You have the RIGHT to emot

ional and spiritual support from others.
"Let us not give up meetng together,...but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25)

You have the RIGHT to be free of fear.

" For you did not receive a spirit that makes you slave again to fear, but you receive the Spirit of sonship. And by Him we cry,'Abba, Father'."(Romans 8:15)

Copyright 1992 HOPE FOR THE HEART Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself toothers. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important, only you know what is best for you.
Don't ake for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.
Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothi is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
Don't shut loved out of your life by saying it's impossiable to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love.; the fastest way to loose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best ay to keep love is to give it wings.
Don't dismiss your dreams. To be withot dreams is to be without hope; to be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don't run through life so fast that you forget not to only where yu've been, but also where you are going.
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of te way. And along each step, don't forget to care for yourself. you are God's Handiwork.

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