Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Meet My 'Crazy' :)

 
"God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity..."
-Psalm 68:6
 
 
wake up to crazy like many of you;)
 
   House in disarray, clothes scattered throughout the laundry room, the endless sink with dishes, homeschool books hidden under sofas, and socks not quite making it into the laundry basket. YES, SheCray comes out(smile). The crazy of life!!! Time doesn't slow down nor do activities and people. There's always a noble thing to do, always a task to accomplish, always things that make it on the priority list. But life has been built with the Kingdom ideal of family and all of its craziness. Why? Why family?

   Family represents the training ground for many of God's social experiments of Kingdom truths; love, preferring one another, confrontation, forgiveness, anger, pain, kindness, nuture, long suffering! We practice being a brother, a sister, a mother, a father, a husband, and, yes, a wife;) 

Contributing into a family is hardwork! You will get your feelings hurt, you will get mad, you will be taken for granted. But, at the same token you will see the fruit of your good labor, witness family triumphs, witness successes, and be one another's cheerleader:) It's what the love of Jesus looks like when we put into practice. And that's what it is, it's practice. We get to choose the principle of what Jesus would like for us to respond instead of practicing our natural impulses; selfishness, self-centered gratification, me, myself, and I.

Whether you've grown up in a Christian family, grown up in a single-parent family, grown up in the dysfunction hodge-podge of abuse in your family, or abandoned with no family, God still has the same heart intentions for all of us to learn, His Kingdom mindset of family:) He's a great Father that would love to have all His kids get this mindset in all of us. From a distance, we can definitely see darkness at work to try to dismantle the core heart of family. But God is crazy about His family and if you can get anything out of this it would be to fall in love with His heart for your family too:)

Yeah...He's all up in your crazy too;)


"Don’t you see that children are God’s best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy?Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth.Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children!Your enemies don’t stand a chance against you; you’ll sweep them right off your doorstep."
                                                                                                                                                           
-Psalm127:3-5