my friends
i dont know if it is me or if it is just the world we live in, but there is some junk going on in peoples lives. most of my friends are victims of divorce and the most of the others wish they were. families are so broken. the result is devastation to the kids lives for years to come. my friends are the screw ups, the dropouts, the victims, the abused, the unlovable, the freaks. my friends are the normals. i am so amazed at how many people live with such tough lives. i dont mean any disrespect to my friends or anyone else in the world. i am just saying, there is alot of hurting people in this world.
today was a day full of ministering to the very ones i am talking about. its tough, its draining, and i sometimes feel like it is endless. its dirty. but i wouldnt have it any other way. i wanna be like jesus. he was a friend to the sinners. i wanna be a friend to those who are the throw aways, the drop outs, the screw ups. that is where i see jesus. i pray for my friends. they are pretty messed up sometimes. it makes me sad to see the lives they have to endure. the great thing is seeing God use it and change people thru it all.
my friends are screw ups, drop outs, and victims. but if ya think about it, arnt we all? maybe we should all love somebody, and try to make a difference in the world that is closest to us.
today was a day full of ministering to the very ones i am talking about. its tough, its draining, and i sometimes feel like it is endless. its dirty. but i wouldnt have it any other way. i wanna be like jesus. he was a friend to the sinners. i wanna be a friend to those who are the throw aways, the drop outs, the screw ups. that is where i see jesus. i pray for my friends. they are pretty messed up sometimes. it makes me sad to see the lives they have to endure. the great thing is seeing God use it and change people thru it all.
my friends are screw ups, drop outs, and victims. but if ya think about it, arnt we all? maybe we should all love somebody, and try to make a difference in the world that is closest to us.
posted by Life with Brock Gill at 10:18 PM
4 Comments:
Yeah.
brian was preaching a few Sundays ago and said the only way he's making it through this "crap" - that actually is my word for it not the one he used in the pulpit:) - w/ his parents is the joy he finds/has in Christ. that situation is not getting any better. his mom is actually staying w/ us right now. we've been going to see his dad the past few weeks. we'll go once a week, i'll cook him a couple of meals, the kids play, and he and brian watch monday night football. never in a million years would i have thought life would be like this. but gotta find that joy in the midst of it all ....right. least that's how brian deals with it. i'm still dealing. just wanted to say how important it is to have Godly friends like you and auny that other friends can call on when there's crap going on. thanks...
steph
let me just tell you...
alright, i won't, but you already know...crap is what it is for sure. but, my crap and my family's crap (and the crap steph is talking about) is definitely the norm these days. so very sad...and repulsing. and, my crap isn't even almost compared to the horrendous crap that lots of people live with, that's for sure. and, in case i haven't used the word 'crap' enough in this comment, let me just say...it's all a bunch of CRAP!! what are people thinking?
but, you know...you just gotta deal. and move on. and pray. and listen to people and minister and pray some more. it's an epidemic...all of it, but specifically the broken homes thing. seriously horrible...and not a person that it doesn't/hasn't touched. craziness.
Satan comes to steal and rob...and destroy the family. I am a "victim" of divorce as well. The evil monster of addiction stole my husband from me. Right now, the monster still has a hold on him. God is blessing me and protecting me and my daughter. I am grateful for that. I'm loved and forgiven from "one scarred hand to the other." What has the "crap" in my life taught me? That we're all alike..we all suffer...we all have pain...its what we do with that pain that matters. I use my pain to help others.
Thanks Brock for accepting us with such a Christ-like faith.
Teresa
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