Thursday, October 18, 2007

Another Dedication ;)

I have often struggled with the whole idea of the family of God. I didn't understand why I would need another family... I already had one. And like most families mine is crazy and dysfuntional... but I love my family. I love my family sooooooo much! I wouldn't change any of them if I could. But I am fully aware that they are crazy... but I look beyond all of that and love them anyways. So why would I want another group of dysfunctional people to love. And my experience with the family of God was not only a dysfunctional group of people... it was another group of people telling you what to do! A bunch of people telling how to live your life... but who had serious isssues of their own! It was looking too much like my own family. And since I couldn't get rid of my own family.. I decided to reject this wannabe group!

I would tell myself that the family of God was for people who lacked a sense of belonging. And I thankfully had found mine with my family. No matter what's going on in my life... I know I have my family. I am always going to be a Joseph... that's where I fit. I am the most comfortable and feel the most acceptance when I am with my grandma, my aunts, uncles and my cousins all talking foolishness... making jokes for hours. Even though they can annoy me or piss me off... it doesn't matter! That's where I fit... that's who I was! I didn't need the church to accept me... I was always already accepted.

But tonight I have realised that I am apart of another family. I must thank the Montreal Women's Ministry Network for letting me into their family. I am honored to be apart of such a sisterhood that loves and accepts others so easily. I am so blessed by the group... to have other women to encourage me and pray with me... without judging me or trying to tell me what I am doing wrong. And I feel like I fit... as I share my heart or laugh hysterically... I feel like I belong.

And I'm happy that I don't have to give up part of my own family to belong... but that I can just enjoy both. And I think that this is what God intended... this is what the family of God should look like.

To my sisters at MWMN, thank you for showing me what the Christian family should look like.

Acts 4:32
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.
1 Peter 2:17
Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
John 17:20-26
Jesus Prays for All Believers
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
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