I want to thank you all for your kind words, food, thoughts and prayers for me and my family following my Mother’s death. She is whole and holy now like she has never been before. We are grateful for the words and prayers. In the midst of travel some of my family had weather delays etc. It became comical as to what more would happen. One of my Aunt’s labeled our family adventures as National Lampoon’s Bonnie’s Funeral Adventure. Yes, it was just that comical. One of my cousins works for a hotel chain and was able to secure rooms at significantly discounted rates. However, in the quest for discounted rates and being unfamiliar with the area their lodging was cheap but spread out Pt. Wentworth, Richmond Hill and the best Hinesville. Yes, Hinesville when we were operating out of Rincon. That stuff just happens. All of that led to tails of epic proportions for car time and location. In the end we were together and having a good time enjoying the company.
Any more it seems only weddings
and funerals bring families together. The cousin I mentioned above I have not
seen in 40 years. I guess the last time was when we were 12 or 13 years old. It
is sad to say that but unfortunately true. He lives in Austin, Texas and me in
Georgia now but really. I do find this is common to so many families and
friends. Wakes bring back together for a brief moment friends who live in the
same area yet busy, complicated lives contribute to the failure to see each
other. Life becomes so important and it is yet life together is the most
important. It is in the moments of loss or great gain that we take stock of
what is of real value.
So many of us place value in
what we do be it on the job, ball field or church and yet fail to see that who
we are is of far more value. Yet not just who we are but who we are with and
sharing the moments of life. We were made for community/family. To live
together with family and or friends this time spent on the planet called earth.
That is what is of value not what we do. Our worth is not measured by what we
do. Although you and I (a big I here) get so easily entangled in that false
belief, that does not make it true.
Because we were created by a
loving God we have value. All lives have value due to our creator. The value is
so great that while we were yet sinners Christ died for ALL of us. That means,
at least in my mind, while I was ignorant of God or just stubborn to his
presence maybe even hostile to him and those who love him, Christ died for me.
That means I must be important to him. Recently I read a rant from an individual
who was done doing good for others. Those who had been helped had been
ungrateful and unchanged by the good done for them. They had not changed or
been changed by the act of kindness and so the writer was DONE. That could be
said of me with regard to my relationship with God before Christ. I was
unchanged, unrepentant, un-phased yet Christ died anyway. My value was/is not
based on what I could do, would do or might do but on what He did, who He is
and how much He loves. Thank God for that. With that as an example, maybe I
need to respond to others based upon who I am, who God is making me into and
not who they are or what they deserve.
In
HIS service and yours,
BroG
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