It’s Mama…..
F is for Family
The older I get, the more I believe that God puts families together for a purpose. Some families grow strong together and others break apart or are embattled with disease, illness, or addiction. I don’t know how God decides where we are to be placed into a family, but I do believe that where we are placed is no accident and that God does not make a mistake in where he lands us.
It is what we do with where we are placed that makes all the difference.
You have been placed in a wonderfully imperfect, but perfect for you, family. Never doubt that. And always invest in that…
Always
God has a way of taking what we bring to him and making it beautiful and lovely…in His time
Love one another!
With your whole heart
Through thick and thin, in good times and in bad, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health…
Forever
You were called to be brothers and sister and there is no greater investment that you can make on this earth than to love, spend time with, and cherish one another
There are nuances to your relationship that only you three can understand…arms being called wings, memories of climbing the Magnolia tree on Balsam Drive, digging for bugs under the rocks at Balsam Drive, being pulled in the wagon to Garden Springs. The hole in the wall at 115 Valhalla Drive, chasing the neighbor girl with a stick for calling your sister a mean name, making no bake cookies, Easter Baskets, tag in the cul de sac, burying Jewel together in a home already filled with sadness. Living through your parent’s divorce, learning to adjust to a new home and new family. New furniture, new drive to school, the song by Keith Urban “Somebody Like Me”, Flying kites on Mother’s Day. Mom frustrating you with “all those dumb pictures”. PKU and its impact on your sister. Kentucky Air National Guard and its influence on our family. Family holidays, vacations, and celebrations. Games at the triangle table at Gatewood Drive, nailed down windows, swims in the pool. The list could go on and on…so many things that bind you together.
As you get older, these memories and the ones you continue to make will be the glue that continues to bind you together.
No one will ever understand these and all the other sharing that you have had together the past twenty-five years.
You may marry, have deep friendships, but I truly believe that the
greatest bond you will ever have outside of that of God is one another
What you do with that bond will be up to each of you and the investment you make in one another. There will be times where you give 100% and get nothing in return. There will be other times when you are on the receiving end of that care and compassion. Sometimes, you may be so busy with your own career and family that it feels like there is a void in your relationship….fight hard to work against that void.
The biological bond you have with one another was put there by God, is built into your genetic makeup and is a strong one.
Honor it
Honor one another
Take care of each other
No matter what comes
In all ways
Always
There will be no greater investment that you will ever make than that of loving, caring and spending time with one another, reaching out to each other and
Loving
One another
“as only you can”
I love you as only your Mama can,
Mama
