Santiago and Mary are the typical couple who tirelessly fight to achieve the “American Dream”. Santiago works in the banking industry and María works as a high school teacher. They have been married for more than 10 years, but even though they have steady jobs, they have serious financial problems. These problems have grown over…
It had been Mary’s dream to be a mother. For her, being a woman was having the opportunity to procreate and build a family with several children. Now, married to Peter, it was time to make every woman’s innate desire come true, the desire to be a mother. The first months after the wedding passed…
The most important structure in our society, and even maybe in the universe, is the family. The concept of marriage and family is not a human invention but a divine one. God created a prototype of what He was. He is a God manifested in three persons: God the Father, God the son and God…
Let us continue with the dysfunctional families topic. It is a broad issue that affects a large number of homes today, and to which we must pay attention, since the family is the foundation from which human beings perceive reality and the world around us. Let us also analyze the following story: a boy was…
The situations we lived in our childhood leave a mark on us for better or worse. These marks last for a lifetime. If our parents or relatives have hurt us emotionally, or if we belong to a dysfunctional family, it will be up to us to take advantage of these experiences and use them as…
Today, families live in a battlefield. The situations that currently surround our society have made it to be this way. Many professionals dedicate their time to study this phenomenon. Among these professionals is Doctor Joyce Brothers, who presents some terrifying statistics (1984): 8 million women are being frequently abused in their own homes, victims of…
In this blog, I would like to talk about the importance of the parent-child relationship, and I want to study this concept by analyzing the creation of Adam and Eve. When God created Adam and Eve, His intention was that they should have lived in intimacy with Him and with each other. In fact, when…
Samuel is lost! We were at the amusement park with the family. Zory was with Samuel and they both got distracted, then, the worst thing we could have ever imagined, happened. Samuel got lost. We started screaming his name, looking for him everywhere. I was not there with Zoraida, so, when I heard the screaming…
One of the biggest challenges we have when raising our children is to face a rebel child. Daily fights over power, the aggressions due to sibling rivalry, or crisis, have become a reason for suffering parents to cry for help. I receive emails, phone calls and petitions daily, from parents who are desperately seeking help…
The Bible tells us that we were created to live in community not in toxic relationships. In fact, our creator lives in community and made us in His own image, the image of a relational God (Gen. 1:26,27). A God manifested in three different people who are one in mind and purpose. From the beginning,…
