Monday, January 16, 2006
PERSPECTIVE
PERSPECTIVE
By Sally I. Kennedy
Jan 16, 2006
Sorting through fifty years of stuff. What an incredible journey back
in time through our parents' earthly sojourn. My sister and I were
sitting on the living room sofa, which still had the arm covers on .
Boxes of photos and letters and saved treasures were mounded up around
us. We always joked about there being a lot to go through after Dad
died, especially that attic!
We talked and cried, and it was evident how my sister sees and
remembers things about our Dad one way, me another. We were kids who
grew up in the same family, yet viewed and related to our mom, and our
dad, differently.
Our dad was the same person always. Whether with my sister or with me,
he was still "Daddy". Our different views of him did not change who
he was at all. It was just our perspective.
Maybe God's klds, brothers and sisters in the church, individually
view God differently. Perhaps the relationships to God are based on
varied background experiences.
Yet God is always the same. Unswerving and unchanging. Faithful. El
Shaddai. El Elyon Adonai. The much loved hymn, Great Is Thy
Faithfulness, says there is no shadow of turning with Him. He is the
same yesterday, today, and forever. And ever.
Isn't it so wonderful that in our lives, where everything is
constantly changing, there is something/Someone who is not? It is a
great comfort to me, a foundation on which to safely build and live.
Yes!! That is good news.
Irish Thursdays, More Little Parables from Ireland by Sally I.
Kennedy, ©2005
http://www.sallyikennedy.com
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PRAYER
"Lord, fill me with your love and increase my thirst for holiness.
Cleanse my heart of every evil thought and desire and help me to act
kindly and justly and to speak charitably with my neighbor."
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