Tag: father

The Holy Grail of Love

Our mothers and our fathers can not save us and rescue us in the way we long for them to. As children our natural instinct, which is actually perhaps a supernatural instinct is to look to them for all of that. Sadly there are so many parents which devastate this undertaking to care for us, by their own frailty, their wounds and weaknesses or even by who they have become now, which may be just very hard or cold.Where did all this come from in them? Ironically from the same type of wounds that we may have received from them, either purposely or unwittingly. So still today, whether they have hurt us or not, we are longing for this rescue, saving, nurture and so much more from them and they may not themselves be able to give or receive what it is we long for. This supernaturally natural instinct is…

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Consistently Consistent…

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8 NKJV) Consistency, inconsistency and God. We look to people to maintain equilibrium in our lives but really how can they? We are born to earthly parents and we are dependent on them from birth and what other pattern are we likely to learn other than dependence. We learn that behavior determines acceptance and approval and our family of origin determines the largest portion of who we will become and what responses and reactions will be. I don’t think it’s till we finally discover that we have a Heavenly Father, a divine parent that we can begin the transition from an earthly dependence to a heavenly eternal secure sure dependence. And, unfortunately by then often we have learnt not to really trust those we depend on and so we make God prove himself and we test him in it. You…

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