Family Friendships
- Carolyn & John Wilt
- Mar 6
- 2 min read
Over the past few years understanding the value of friendships has been researched with interesting results. Being friendly and experiencing friendly occasions is very healthy and meaningful for each and all of us. It can reduce loneliness and feelings of rejection which in turn increases a persons emotional and physical conditions. It’s major impact occurs when it reduces and even reverses depression !!! The 2023 Surgeon General’s annual report was focused on depression and it’s dangerous effects including mental illness, poor physical health and suicide. The act of friendship can greatly reduce those results including completely reversing them.
SDA Kinships Families & Friends is focusing on introducing and, hopefully activating acts of friendship within it’s family members and any other family that connects with F&F. EVERY Kinship member has a family and Carolyn and I desire strongly to connect with every family possible. We have tried several different approaches and our monthly ZOOM friendly family roundtable discussions have been somewhat successful but it would be exciting to have more families desiring to meet, greet and share around our safe table. We often have prepared to focus on a selected topic but a person at the table asks a pertinent question or shares special situation and meaningful and caring discussions arise with great results.
A friendly atmosphere invites and permits very effective sharings and discussions. Carolyn and I trust our dear friends. We may not believe everything they may believe or do everything they may do but they are our friends and we enjoy spending time with them. In fact we often hear a new thought or learn about a new thing to do. We are intrigued by that new thought so explore it and expand our understandings and beliefs. We have discovered new activities to do that we had never thought about before a dear trusted friend shared about it.
So, in addition to our worldwide monthly friendly roundtable discussions we strongly desire to help local districts and groups of kinship families meet - greet - and connect with each other. We realize many families are unaware of other families nearby, so if you would like to create your own local friendship gathering please reach out to Carolyn and me and we can provide available contacts for you to reach out to.
Together we can help grow friendly gatherings around the world for our Kinship members and their families. Oh we realize that’s a huge dream but Carolyn and I dream big. We have seen and felt the warmth and results of strong friendships within our own rainbow journeys. Remember every friendly group can reduce loneliness, mental and physical illness, depression and suicide.
Please help us create friendly rainbow families around the world. Our Kinship members and their families will benefit as we all become friendly. Many warm hugs to all that read this. Hopefully you will feel our friendship when you connect with us :):)
Carolyn & John Wilt
SDA Kinship Families & Friends
