So I left you for a while. Sometimes life gets ahold of you and doesn't want to give you a moment of free time. Nonetheless, I am back in action with a big idea to throw out there. Disclaimer, I am not an expert on the bible.
Are you ready to be mind blown?!?
So, lately I've been thinking about "Our FATHER who art in heaven" our FATHER. So many children and adults come from broken homes these days. Even I grew up in a pretty disfunctional home, despite my parents best efforts, I felt abbandon and alone. Thankfully, we have eternal parents.
God is our dad. He is the father that truly planned us before we were born. Who loves us despite all the things we do and all the times we disobey him. And, when we feel alone and abondoned by our earthly parents he will adopt us and keep us because we are his own. God challenges us and sees to it that we know the value in working for things in life. He sends angels to protect us. His angels remind me a lot of my father's good friend micha. He's a cop so my dad was always demanding that he watch out for us when he could. However, he knows our need for the nurturing care of a mother so he gave us the church.
Our father is the provider but our mother provides nurture and care that is sometimes hard for our human selves to feel from a God whom we cannot see. The church is absolutly esential to the life of a Christian. Without the church we have no mother. The church gives us guiedence. It gives us a family that we can lean on, rely on, and learn from. The church feeds us the word of God. It feeds us spiruataly. Our mother, the church, gives us brothers and sisters in christ to share with, laugh with and cry with. Then God gave us Jesus. Jesus who was all in one. He was our father, our brother, and our friend.
Jesus came to be withus. Live like we do. Share in all our emotions. To me this is all just the most incredible thing. When our earthly parents arenot functioning as parents it's ok because God has adopted us and created an entire famoily for us that is perfec!
