Peace on Thanksgiving

Are you the only politically liberal person in your family? Did you just spend your thanksgiving enduring an endless amount of Barack jokes? Are you the only political conservative in your family, and spent your thanksgiving enduring the "greedy white man" comments uttered by rich white people? Are you the only Roman Catholic, the only animal rights activist refusing to eat the Turkey your aunt slaved over, the only Protestant, the only agnostic, the only Christian, the only football fan, the only non-football fan? And yet you would never say to these people who are so different than you what you say about their kind to your friends. For instance you may think that "all Republicans need to taken outside and shot!"; except for Grandpa right? Sometimes, these differences divide families, but more often than not the differences themselves are the result of deep wounding. And usually in healthy relationships, the differences don't divide the relationship. Hmm...? I wonder if the family members who get along are compromisers? I wonder if they are peacemakers? More thoughts later.