An Ode to Aunts and Uncles

...with some application to single and childless Christians

God made us to live in a family. Not just a nuclear family, but an extended family. We’re not meant to have only brothers and sisters and parents, but also grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins, and in due time, nieces and nephews. Of course, post-Fall, that’s not how this always plays out. There is death, difficulty, and barrenness. There are a…