Opening Boxes

"I think this season, God is asking us to stop running away from family..." - blood bro A

"I think it can't be any more obvious if God bludgeoned us with it..." - blood bro B

Mm... this is swimming around my mind, just have to put it down to get it organised..

Open the box, stare at it... pray over it... enter in... and build an altar right there.

Being with dad suddenly just makes me wonder... would life have been different if he were around, all those years.

All those years, living and growing up with grandma, aunt n mum around... mm.. how does one learn to be the man of the house, when there isn't any around?

Guess it takes the really big things of life to come at you, to realise whats been missing all this while. Career... ahh... just sitting in this dept after a less-than-stellar stint at IT, i wonder if i would.. should.. have taken after him instead.

Wondering, wondering... about relationships and marriage.. and suddenly realising theres not a single example in the home to look at..?

Then... strange things too.. just seeing my unsaved dad in church during worship. how he, on his first visit to chuch, encouraged me n my bro to go forward during worship - just half freaked me out :)

Really strange stock, we are...

But, who we are, for better or worse, is intricately related with the families that God has put us in. Theres been enough running away, and even if this will be a fight that lasts a lifetime, its time to declare..

...But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. - Joshua 24:15b

If not you, who? if not now, when?