Saturday, December 10, 2011 (7:54 a.m.)
Blessed Lord Jesus,
I want to take mental notes today. We get to go celebrate our neighbor’s 50th wedding anniversary. This is a family that we have known for nearly twenty years. A family, whose yards connect to ours. A family, that in all this time, we have NEVER heard an unkind word or tone from!
What a wonderful example of Your love Dearest Jesus. Cousins play encouragingly with cousins. Brothers help brothers. Sisters-in-law truly love and support one another. And ALL honor their father and mother.
Truly, Dear Jesus, with tears in my eyes as I even think about them, they are a tribute to Your love in action!
Thank You for this wonderful example that You have in them. A wonderful example of a family who truly lives Your Word! The first four verses of the sixth chapter of Ephesians suits them to a tee.
“Children, obey your parents; this is the right thing to do because God has placed them in authority over you. Honor your father and your mother. This is the first of God’s Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. And this is the promise: if you honor your father and mother, yours will be a long life, full of blessing.
“And now a word to you parents. Don’t keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful. Rather, bring them up with the loving discipline the Lord Himself approves, with suggestions and godly advice.”
In all my 57 years, I have only experienced one other family that is unscathed by any divorces. And even that one didn’t have the unique camaraderie (mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together) that we are so blessed to witness in this particular group of people.
Yes Dearest Jesus, thank You for this wonderful example of a fifty-year marriage that is everything Your Word describes.
And those mental notes I want to take today? Sink them deeply into my heart and my very soul. Thank You Jesus. I love You. And please continue blessing this wonderful example of what a family is truly supposed to look like. Thank You. Amen.
(368 words ~ 8:30 a.m.)
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