My Lamentations

"...When laughter first manifests itself in the infant, it is an incipient cry...What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?" -Soren Kierkegaard

Running away

Remember when you were a child and your parents angered you enough for you to decided to make them pay by leaving?  It is funny how parents know that you will change your mind, so some don't even bother to try to stop you.  I remember that day.  I don't even think I managed to pack my bags.  You know what is funny about these memories?  That while we can't seem to bring ourselves to run away from home as a child, we seem to easily be able to run away from God even after we are His children.  Maybe it is becuase it doesn't take too much to really run away from him. All it takes is a consistent attitude towards commiting even the simplist of sins will cause you to start to stray from God's path.  Sometimes we don't even realize how far we have strayed while other times we know exactly what we are doing.  The coolest thing about this is that just like your parents took you back when you were a small child, God take you back no matter what and he does so unconditionally.  Just like the parable about the prodical son and how he left with all his inheretance, wasting it on things that his father would have not approved of.  Then, after he came to his senses, he returned to his father to beg to even be a servant.  And yet his father welcomed him back as if his son was dead and celebrated him despite all he had done.  There are so many people running away from home these days.  Yet there are more running away from God.  God will take you back, and if you have never come to him he will take you no matter what your past.  May God's grace shine upon you and bring you the peace, hope, love, and everything else you find yourself needing in this life.  Today is the day to find your home again, whether you have been there before or not.  And the great thing is, home comes to you.

theweeper

posted by: theweeper at October 06, 2007 23:13 | link | comments |

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