Romans 13:8 Pay your debts as they come due. However, one debt you can never finish paying is the debt of love that you owe each other. The one who loves another person has fulfilled Moses’ Teachings.
The EWomen's devotion this week is how God is crazy about us. How He loves us and how we should love one another in His name. In 1 John 4:7-8 it says that anyone who loves As a child of God and knows god. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. That is pretty powerful stuff. I like to think that I love openly. That I would love like God. I have gotten better about staying out of the "mean girls", and I have actually gotten better with my swearing. I would like to think that when people see me that they would know that I have been in discipline with God today.
It isn't that hard to show love. To show kindness and attention to those people in our lives that need it. But it is hard when you feel like you are the giver and not the receiver. Sometimes I feel like my family isn't there for me when I need them. I always call them-well anyone but my mom-and hear "Oh I was getting ready to call you". really? Do you really expect me to believe that! I still am completely confused by the "other" family that has had no contact with me in so long I wouldn't know where to begin to know where the "love" is there. I think I have handled that well but to now avail. I don't want to believe some of the things that mom has said-only because she is the ex wife. She was the one that left-and took part in the separation-so I would imagine she is a little bitter-especially when she can see that her child has had no contact with her father and has tried over the last year and gotten nowhere. Life lesson-When people in your life abandon you and ignore you-that is their loss. Not yours! If you think it is yours what do you think you would gain by having them in your life in the capacity that they are showing you now?
Dear God I love you so much and thank you for watching over my family. Please give relief to Joseph and his newly developed illness. I pray for Joshua that people will quit dropping him! Thank you for making him such a tough little boy! Please watch over Granny and all of my family that I love so very much. I have to give their lives to Your hands since I can't be there to watch over them. I know you will protect them and love them better than I ever could! Please be with all of the people hurting from loss-hurting from loss of a loved one, or a job or whatever their significant loss is. I pray that you will send me home! I want to go home! Or near there! Please open the doors for me to make that transition or close them tight where there is no more "maybe". In Your name I pray. Amen.
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