Do you feel orphaned or adopted? Take another look at the meaning behind Easter for an answer to God’s plan for your family.
This post is listed on Christian Mommy Blogger/Fellowship Fridays and Missional Women/Faith Filled Friday.
We all have parents, whether we physically knew them or not. In my case, I knew both of my parents, growing up in a home where they both lived until I was nine. It was at that point that they divorced. My mother, my two brothers and me moved 2,000 miles away so we could be near my mother’s relatives.
Saying goodbye that day to my father on the plane was a very painful experience. It was back in the day when non-ticketed friends and family could go beyond the security check-point at the airport. My father walked us all onto the plane and paid special attention to me. Through my tears I could hear him reassuringly say, “Everything is going to be ok. You need to be a big girl now and take care of your mother.”
That was not my first taste of abandonment, but it’s the one…
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