"Friends love through all kinds of weather and families stick together in all kinds of trouble."
I started a new thing, I am going to try to memorize one scripture a week. And the verse above is this week's verse. It was appropriate for this week, celebrating my birthday and all. Every year as my birthday draws closer I consider how I would like to celebrate and spend those all-too-short 24 hours. Which without fail, leads me to be reflective on the last year and count my blessings.
Families stick together in all kinds of trouble. How fortunate I am to have a family that resembles that verse. But it saddens me to think of all the people who don't take that to heart. They give up when it gets to hard, the trouble seems too much, things aren't going their way, or they think that they have already been through too much. What would the world be like if everyone had their families best interest at heart and not just their own? What would it be like if everyone made a DECISION to love, instead of leaning on their "feelings" to guide them? What if people responded in love, patience and gentleness to their family even through arguments and rough times? We would grow closer to each other. Trust would flourish and respect would blossom, and the family would become a dependable unit, the way it was designed to be. Family is one of the few things in this life that you can't change, even through divorce, and fights and years of not talking to each other. You can not change who your parents are, who your kids are, who your siblings are.
Unfortunately, because of these tight bonds that we share with our family, it is easy for them to be the ones that hurt us the most. I am by NO MEANS perfect, I get my feelings hurt and act badly, I respond impatiently and don't always say things that are kind. But what I am saying is what if we tried to live in such a way that WE are friends that love through all kinds of weather and WE are family that sticks together in all kinds of trouble. Ultimately, you can only control that way that you act. But you'd be surprised how the heart and attitudes of those around you would change if you acted and responded in love to them.
Just a thought.
Families stick together in all kinds of trouble. How fortunate I am to have a family that resembles that verse. But it saddens me to think of all the people who don't take that to heart. They give up when it gets to hard, the trouble seems too much, things aren't going their way, or they think that they have already been through too much. What would the world be like if everyone had their families best interest at heart and not just their own? What would it be like if everyone made a DECISION to love, instead of leaning on their "feelings" to guide them? What if people responded in love, patience and gentleness to their family even through arguments and rough times? We would grow closer to each other. Trust would flourish and respect would blossom, and the family would become a dependable unit, the way it was designed to be. Family is one of the few things in this life that you can't change, even through divorce, and fights and years of not talking to each other. You can not change who your parents are, who your kids are, who your siblings are.
Unfortunately, because of these tight bonds that we share with our family, it is easy for them to be the ones that hurt us the most. I am by NO MEANS perfect, I get my feelings hurt and act badly, I respond impatiently and don't always say things that are kind. But what I am saying is what if we tried to live in such a way that WE are friends that love through all kinds of weather and WE are family that sticks together in all kinds of trouble. Ultimately, you can only control that way that you act. But you'd be surprised how the heart and attitudes of those around you would change if you acted and responded in love to them.
Just a thought.
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