sometimes we forget how truly precious and short this life is. i've had two friends lose their fathers in the last week. i mourn with them for the gift they have lost. fathers are truly important. when they are good fathers, their relationship with us directly mirrors our relationship with our heavenly father. it can completely alter how you view god when your father relationship is dysfunctional.
but after mourning with them i learned that someone i love and care for is going through and i feel so incredibly helpless. i know i have the power of prayer and i know god to be a healer but right now i don't feel like my power amounts to much. i'm glad i have my best friends praying because i'm so scared. i'm trying not to fall apart but being so far away from home i can't help it sometimes. i have been a wreck all afternoon and right now i just want to be with my family. they are the most important people in the world to me and the distance feels much farther than the few thousand miles separating us.
i'm working on getting my ticket to go home and praying my missing miles are applied. definitely need god's favor in that area. i was home in october so it's barely been 8 months since i was last home but for some reason it feels like an eternity. life is precious and we have to stop taking it for granted. well, i can only speak for myself, and i'm learning to not take it for granted. tomorrow is not promised and that's truth.
my god, we need you now.
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