Tuesday, November 30, 2010

What Are We Doing?


Sitting in the recliner that has become my resting place at home, I am contemplating family and what it actually means to be family. I looked it up in the dictionary and found that all the people who are descended from a common ancestor, a group of people who are closely related by birth, marriage, or adoption, or a child or set of children born to somebody are considered family. This was not the definition that I was seeking. I needed something that described the unconditional love that I thought existed between my siblings and myself.
All of my life I had thought that being part of a particular family meant caring for one another, and standing up for one another. I felt, that as a sister to my siblings, I would fight hell in order to stand by them and give them my absolute support. Loyalty to my brothers and my sisters was a prerequisite to being a part of my family! I really believed that our clan was a family unit that could not be destroyed by anything, and in a way I was right. There was nothing outside the ranks of our family circle that could have touched the closeness and love that was a constant in our home as we grew up.
However, I never realized that destruction can come from inside the close knit love of family. I was devastated the first time the innermost parts of my family begin to crumble. The damage was so severe that something precious was destroyed and today no longer exists. The bond of love and hope between children can be damaged so severely that something stops existing and can never return to its normal state.
I am sick at heart to realize that this has happened to my family. I want to cry buckets of tears, and I would if I thought it would help some of us open our eyes to the devastation and destruction that we are not only causing among ourselves but also to the chaos that will be passed to future generations. Will our actions cause division that can never be bridged for our offspring? Oh, oh, what will the end of this be!

Friday, February 26, 2010

He is Faithful

God still answers prayer! I am overwhelmed, as I watch his fingers on the keyboard of life. So carefully He hits the notes and creates the sweetest melodies! He changes note after note until they fit into His song of victory. He has, this day answered prayers that I have been praying for a while! This song has the beginning sound of celebration!

I am reminded:

Jesus never fails; Jesus never fails. You might as well get the behind me satan, you cannot prevail because Jesus never fails!!