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It is so very hard to realise we need a mum and dad and that will never change."
We don't need to make idols of our parents
....We need to know our eternal Father...he is the only parent who is perfect and will never change.
This is not what I was getting at at all.
When we are hurt by the failures of our parents or even their sins, our hearts would want
to throw away any contact with them. I realised though this is very tempting, we have love
in our hearts for them which we need to recognise and understand. It is actually not about raising
our parents up, but learning we are built to love them and their role.
One can get great internal conflict not realising this is a God given desire and need. They may never
have met the need but it is there. So many ophans long to know who their parents were when they
had no contact. This is a reflection of the feeling and reality.
Seeing a sinner for who they are really helps, because you know ones debt to them and also the
lostness they walked in, bound by society, sin and their own blindness which made it inevitable.
This helped me be a parent to my kids in a way my parents were never to me, and to grow beyond
where I was in the family I grew up in. God is my Father, and also I thank God for the blessing of
life He gave me through my mum and dad.
I know for many this is a very difficult place to go, to see the conflicting emotions that war within,
which is why family trauma and abuse is so very very hard to come to terms with and resolve, if
ever. But this is where the cross can minister to a depth we could never believe possible and make
whole that which is broken, and take us out as children of our Father, and know His grace and love
overflowing us.