Easter, 2009...we're all down. The world stops moving for a brief moment. Nothing else seems to be important.
Yesterday, one of us got "knocked down." And, in this family, if one gets knocked down, we are all knocked down. You see, we are a family. We do this thing called life... together. Other things were pressing us at the time...others were depending on us, expecting us to show up, expecting us to be there for important, good, Godly things. Expecting us to be where we were supposed to be, doing what we were scheduled to do, being everything to everyone. But, yesterday, we had to be together for the one of us who needed us most. And...I just love that about family. Yes, we discussed it as a family, knowing that meetings would be missed, people would notice we were not there, important things - good things would go by the way-side. But, what's a family to do? Be a family when it matters the most...make it priority...stop everything else to help the one of us...for without all 5...we are not the family God created us to be. Was it worth it you ask? Did we miss out on anything? Sure, we did! We missed being where we were scheduled to be last night. It was important. But, this...far more important-er! Was it beneficial to the family? Yes, the one is healing...we are being transformed...into a family God can use! It's tough...it's exciting...it's hard to see one of us hurting, bruised, sore, injured, lame, battered, in tears...needing the other four of us to carry them...but we are strong...and we will...we always will...because we are ...
family!
Yesterday, one of us got "knocked down." And, in this family, if one gets knocked down, we are all knocked down. You see, we are a family. We do this thing called life... together. Other things were pressing us at the time...others were depending on us, expecting us to show up, expecting us to be there for important, good, Godly things. Expecting us to be where we were supposed to be, doing what we were scheduled to do, being everything to everyone. But, yesterday, we had to be together for the one of us who needed us most. And...I just love that about family. Yes, we discussed it as a family, knowing that meetings would be missed, people would notice we were not there, important things - good things would go by the way-side. But, what's a family to do? Be a family when it matters the most...make it priority...stop everything else to help the one of us...for without all 5...we are not the family God created us to be. Was it worth it you ask? Did we miss out on anything? Sure, we did! We missed being where we were scheduled to be last night. It was important. But, this...far more important-er! Was it beneficial to the family? Yes, the one is healing...we are being transformed...into a family God can use! It's tough...it's exciting...it's hard to see one of us hurting, bruised, sore, injured, lame, battered, in tears...needing the other four of us to carry them...but we are strong...and we will...we always will...because we are ...
family!
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Oh that's so sad, yet so sweet. Family makes everything better!
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