Family and Friend Relationships
Reviewing the all-consuming relationships....
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Be Your Own Best Present
2020 year-end reflection and message for those of us used to putting everyone else first and feeding into situations that don’t nourish us. Just as we try to be available supportive and our best selves for others, we should be equally, if not more so, for ourselves. Related posts: Everything I Thought I Knew About Diabetes Was Wrong The getting-overness of it all.
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Poem: Sister, Sister II
She avoided me for eleven years. Whatever her reasons, no rejection has ever hurt more. Most of those absent years she called me on my birthday to let me know she was still alive. Quite honestly, her voice was the best present every time. **Read full post.**
- Acceptance and Love, Episodes of Clarity, Family and Friend Relationships, Knowledge & Understanding, Life, On the Road, Spirit Harvest, Walking in the Word
Sermon: Family Matters – Present
Family Matters - Present Has there ever been an ideal Biblical family? The First Family: Adam and Eve raised a murderer God eventually had a do-over with humanity The Second First Family: Noah’s son, Ham, raped his mother while his father was passed out drunk next to her
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Poem: The Weirdest Dream
I could see you so clearly, feel you, even, and smell all your scents – you know, the natural ones; the perfumed ones; your hands – so warm, so strong and comforting (all, your essence) – so missed.
- Acceptance and Love, Family and Friend Relationships, Inspiration from Other Authors, Life, Sermon, Spirit Harvest
Sermon: Family Matters – Future
Family Matters - Future You can still have the family you envisioned. Just becauae you've suffered loss doesn't mean all is lost. Its never too late to go back and grieve something you didn't grieve before and move forward from there.
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Thank You for Peewee
Woman Be Restored Spending my day at the Woman Be Restored Conference at Times Square Church. This year it started with a two hour morning break out session. I chose the Relationship Restoration breakout teaching. I missed most of the first hour – I thought there would be a warm of singing before we got into the meat of the conference. My thinking was wrong. So was my attitude. I walked in on the teaching saying that our ability to forgive is based on our capacity to forgive. My listening walls immediately went up and I typed in my notes, “capacity vs. understanding.” Meaning we have the capacity to do…
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Song & Verse: Piece by Piece
by Kelly Clarkson I first heard the last couple of bars of this song on an overhead speaker in a gym earlier this week. The emotion was so palpable, I had to find it and listen to it fully. The song pretty much says it all; nothing to add from me. Piece by Piece by Kelly Clarkson And all I remember is your back Walking towards the airport leaving us all in your past I traveled 1500 miles to see you Begged you to want me But you didn’t want to But piece by piece you collected me Up off the ground but you abandoned things And piece by piece…
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Devotional: Got Your Back
If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you. Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative. Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
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An Open Letter: Woman to Man
Relationships are built on mutuality and thrive on reciprocity. I cannot build with someone who is constantly attacking me. Passive aggressive behavior is violent in nature. You may “only” be emotionally dismissive, neglectful, and stoic, but each instance is an attack on everything I see in and believe about you....I will not chase anyone who is not pursuing me. I am the good thing you are responsible for shepherding, but I am also responsible for where I choose to go. You lead, I follow. When you stop leading, I stop following. Remember that.
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Face-to-Face: Sharing God’s Glory With One Another
Relationships are destroyed from lack of knowledge as well. People don’t take the time or make the effort to get to know each other anymore. They seek shallow intimacies and call everyone friend. What one person knows, all people know – yet no one truly knows anyone and everyone feels the need to hide their true selves. This cycle is easy to maintain with technology, but the strain of maintaining the mask cannot be kept up indefinitely in face-to-face interactions.
