The More We Get Together

In second grade, my daughter is studying character traits each week. She has a family journal and she writes a question to her father or me to answer. This week's trait is togetherness. As families, we tend to get too busy. We have a million activities, a dozen responsibilities, and an insurmountable of excuses why we don't make time for togetherness. We wonder why our families are failing, why our children are disobeying, why our marriages and friendships are hollow. We are too busy to invest in one another. We don't make togetherness a priority. And if we aren't making time for people, its almost guaranteed we aren't making time to be together with Yahweh. So then our spiritual relationship, our spiritual house, and our spiritual covenant is neglected also. Without being together with Yahweh, we become burnt out, hollow, self-centered and washed up. There is no fire in us, no passion, and no purpose. Togetherness is the lifeblood lifeblood. It is integral, vital, and necessary. How else can we know the Father except we spend time together with Him?