Its a beautiful thing to witness the beauty of life unravel right before your eyes. I mentioned in my previous blog that every family has their dysfunctions. This goes way back to the bible days. One valuable lesson I learned from this is that God can navigate a beautiful story through the mess, He turns ashes to beauty. I remember at a certain point and time being frustrated because I thought my family became more distant when in reality we were coming together.
Ever since I was a teenager I wanted this open and honest relationship with my parents but I allowed fear to hold me back. I began thinking maybe close nit family's only exist behind the TV screen. It wasn't until I finally broke the silence to my mom and told her my views on family life when we spoke about deep-rooted issues that led to the distance in our family. It turns out the both of us had similar illustrations of what our family life can entail. All this time God was working behind the scenes, our desire was to have a family that has irreplaceable values and strong bonds.
Late last year I experienced one of the most vulnerable moments with my parents. I opened up about my disappointments, fears and failures. I did not get the best reaction in response, but I received something words can't express, unconditional love. My parents didn't shut me out, they accepted the raw, vulnerable, most authentic version of me. I couldn't be more grateful. There was a time I thought my parents would only accept the false persona of me, I was so wrong. I experienced a new level of generous love pouring out from them. The truth is, my parents always supported their family in the best way they knew how. My parents are one of the reasons I am here today, shout out to them.
God always works mysteriously behind the scenes. I say that because for years this is the relationship I desired to have with my parents. I want to close by saying Gods timing is not our timing. Sometimes we have to wait years until the desires of our hearts are granted. Some process's are quicker than others but its the ones that stretch our faith that are worth enduring. Together, lets embrace our process. I believe from the bottom of my heart God knows best and He will stretch our faith through His timing.
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