A Family To Cherish

As I looked out the window in the wee hours of the morning, I couldn’t help but take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the sunrise that was unfolding before my eyes.The moon was sitting high in the sky as the sun was just peaking through on the horizon cascading colours of beautiful crimson red and orange on the trees that were blanketed in frost. It was truly breathtaking and comforting to my soul, a visual reminder that as a believer in God, He is still in control and at work behind the scenes painting a masterpiece on His canvas of creation. 

 My eyes filled with tears as I stood watching this beautiful sunrise unfold and I found myself reflecting on the events that had already taken place in the first few weeks of 2021 and looking back over 2020. 

2020 had truly been a year to remember with highlights of the joyful celebration of the birth of a grand-baby girl, the 30th birthday of my own baby girl as well as the 101st birthday of my mom. 

Yet my heart felt heavy as I thought of the lows of the global COVID-19 pandemic that has caused devastating losses for people with the death of family members, the financial toll on households and businesses as well as the emotional strain caused from Government lead restrictions not allowing us to be with our loved ones because of the risk of spreading the virus. 

I couldn’t imagine how I would feel if I was all alone or didn’t believe in something or someone bigger than the concerns at hand. I found myself feeling grateful for my family and the love and support that we have for each other. Although I felt sad we may not be able to be together in person due to life’s circumstances, I am thankful that we are close in our hearts and the love we have for each other transcends any physical barriers or borders.

 I am also thankful to believe that, just as we care about each other in our family, we also have a Heavenly Father that cares about every detail of our lives and is there to help us. We can talk to Him any time and any place. His love for us transcends every physical and spiritual barrier and border because He is all knowing, and always present, and by His Spirit our heart becomes his home. Nothing can separate us from His love. We can know Him as a councillor when we need guidance, a healer when we are sick and a navigator through the storms of our lives.

We can find comfort in knowing He loves us with an everlasting love. It is His desire for the family unit to reflect His love both while we are here on earth and in our home in Heaven for He is a God that desires relationship and we are safe in His arms. For God is love. He is a God of love and compassion, mercy and grace. 

As a mom, and a believer, it gives me comfort to know it doesn’t need to end here, it has always been my prayer that we can be together as a family and be close now and forever. 

So I hold on to my faith that a loving and living Heavenly Father is there for my family, that they too see Him in those quiet morning sunrise moments, and they see His hand print in the tapestry of life’s journey and they know they are loved no matter what. 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does  boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 

1 Corinthians 13:13

Now these three things remain: faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love .

Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angles nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus our Lord.