February 10th

FAMILY

Around the holidays last year was when I knew I had to let go of how in my mind a family should look.  I had to let go and embrace who we are as a family and learn to embrace and love us how we are and not how I had hoped we were to be.

All families are different but I think as long as one person in that family walks with God beside them and leans on His help, strength and wisdom that its enough of constant to bring the family together in whatever way that looks like for them.

So I've let my idol of the perfect, blended family go and now learning to get to know, care for and love the blended family that is real before me.

It hasn't been easy and is not easy and it will get harder before the good fruit can be seen but I'm standing firm in place holding Jesus' hand along the way.

Even in the waiting god can work.  God can also add changes and blessings during the waiting period of another unanswered pray.  God has not dismissed that He is working on the answer for me.  He is just strengthening my faith.
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THE PERFECT FAMILY!! WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

IS IT A MOTHER THAT WATCHES HOW NO ONE SITS DOWN AT THE TABLE TOGETHER TO EAT DINNER?

IS IT WHEN EVERYONE IS SCATTERED?  IS IT WHEN ALL THE KIDS ARE AT THEIR FRIENDS HOUSE ALL WEEKEND AND HARDLY HOME?

IS IT JUST THE MOTHER GOING TO CHURCH?

IS IT WHEN THE KIDS SEEM TO ONLY GO TO YOUTH GROUP?

YES!  ITS ALL OF THAT AND MORE
EVERY FAMILY IS DIFFERENT AND NOT PERFECT TO THE OUTSIDE BUT PERFECT FOR THE INSIDE OF WHAT GOD IS DOING IN EACH.