A pause in our agenda is to encourage you, husbands or fathers, who are going through the first years of marriage or fatherhood surrounded by noise, crying, diapers and the creative mess of the little ones.
There is a strong temptation to fall in love with the CONCEPT of a perfect family, rather than loving the family as it is. Embrace the IDEIA of beautiful and obedient children, to the desire to embrace children as they really are. wife through the lens of?Did you want him to leave? And not through the lens, what does it look like?
- A terrible temptation to live in a parallel world.
- A parallel family.
- Where everything is beautiful and fragrant.
- And the great tragedy of this dualism and? The deep discontent that arises in the heart when you live in a reality far from the ideal ?.
- A discontent that becomes a grudge.
- A grudge that turns into rage.
- A rage that becomes indifference.
- Is the indifference that becomes abandonment.
We live in a world of images. Effects. As in Instagram stories, we have a thousand ways to make our reality more complete than it is. Aren’t we tempted to spend our efforts?But build an image of “margarine family”?
And we cannot succumb to this temptation. Your vocation is to “deal with COMME ILS SA. ET” things like the O WH found . ET “hug, encourage, help, teach according to today’s reality, not the great ideal of tomorrow.
Our example is Jesus, the Son of God, entered our reality, walked among us, suffered our death, has a plan, of course. He knows where he wants to take us. ” I’ll make you a place” so you can be wherever I am, too. But it turns out he won’t love us? He loves us here. Now, in this mess we called today.
Jesus loves who we are and not just what we will be, he deals with our wounds, weaknesses, frustrations, rather than running away from them.
Apply his love, his grace, his goodness. We are not covered by a visual effect; Are we covered by all that He is?.
Article kindly provided by the author and originally published on the Famolia de Trigo website.