What is family? Who is our family? How do we define family members?
What I have seen very recently is that there are two ways of looking at things. Some people believe that the only people in the family are biologically related to you. Others see a mixture of both.
I see it as the second. I am a believer in that anybody can be family because of another belief I have: It’s something you earn.
From a biblical standpoint, Jesus even supports the idea that being biologically related is not the only way to have family. As He was dying, He tells one of His disciples to meet his mother; and it just so happened that this mother was Mary, the mother of Jesus. Jesus told His mother than this disciple was now her son.
With that in mind, I believe that people from all walks of life are eligible to be a brother, sister, father, whatever. You can grow with people outside of the bloodline and become as close as anybody.
Blood relatives have a head start: They are family from the beginning. They have that title. Here’s the thing: They can lose it.
Not everybody will agree with me on this, and that’s fine. But, guess what? I don’t care. Consider this example.
