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 | | Posted by: Leanne | 5/30/2008 8:37 PM | I recently went to Kentucky to celebrate my grandson's birthday. I was not the only one who came to the party--his entire family was there. We all had a great time watching him eat cake for the first time, play with the boxes his toys came in, and delight at all the attention he was getting. Near the end of the weekend, we all decided to take a picture of all of us who had come to the party. When I looked at it, I learned a powerful lesson about family and about being the family of God!
In the center of the picture was my grandson. Around him were lots of people. There was his mother and father; his grandmother and grandfather on his father's side; his grandfather on his mother's side and his grandmother who have both remarried other people, and there was me (technically I am his aunt) and my husband who calls himself grandpa, even though they are not related by blood, and there was my son who calls himself an uncle even though he is really a cousin and there was a friend who calls herself an aunt even though she is a friend.
Confused? Exactly-there were all these people, some blood relatives, some not, all standing around this precious gift of a child. And because, in one way or another, we all felt love for him, it caused us to become, in some mysterious way, a new family. We had a common love, someone we all cared about and it made our hearts and souls unite.
This is how I believe God works. God is like my grandson was for us at the party, the One who is in the middle and who brings together people who otherwise would have little in common and makes us all one big family.
Perhaps instead of looking at each other and being aware of our differences and points of disagreement, personally and denominationally, we should focus on God--because when God is our center, mysteriously we all become one family. | | | Permalink | Trackback |
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