Promoting Others and A Homeless Generation

In Phillipians 2 it says-

” Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside. Help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.”

My new Motto. God let me love deeply and promote others. Motherhood is about that, right? Motherhood brings about so many new feelings, new convictions. I now understand how my mother could be so selfless. It comes naturally out of loving deeply. I want God to show me how to love the people he has placed in my life that deeply.

We watched Napolean Dynamite and Garden State yesterday. With it being so difficult to get to the theater we are seriously behind on movie-watching Napolean Dynamite- I can see the huge following and granted I got some cheap laughs. But I am not ready to join the cult or anything. Garden State was great. Zach Braff did an amazing job at acting “numb”.One line Zach’s character said in Garden State hit me. I can’t remember it exactly. But he referred to how it was wierd to long for home and realize there is no home anymore. I can not speak for the generations before me. But that is a prominent symptom of our generation. So many of us have felt that way, at least for a season of our lives.

After my mother passed away and my dad started dating I felt completely homeless. I had a roof over my head, but it wasn’t the same. And then when he got married that even compounded it. I felt in a twilight zone of sorts. He stayed in the house to try to save some stability for me. But really at that point it wasn’t about the house. The house was different because mom was gone and another woman was there. That homeless feeling went on for a long time. Probably until I married Jeff and we created our own “home”. I know many of my friends worlds were shattered through divorce. They lost the feeling of home at 5. That really blows me away. I can’t imagine. Still some never had the stability of what you would call a home. Since they were born there was instability, in every area of their little life.

In the New Testiment (Bible) it says, “The Son of Man (Jesus) had no where to lay his head”. Jesus didn’t have what was considered a home. The hope for all those that feel homeless in one way or another- Jesus can relate. Though it is never metioned in the Bible, by mere fact that he was a human (God in the flesh) he must have longed for a home just like we do. But his was sacraficed for the mission he was on.

My only point in all of this- Almost all of us have felt homeless. But we have a God who understands. And he wants to be that home for us. He wants to be our rock, foundation, comfort, and salvation. If we count on always having a home in people, relationships, destinations… the rug may be pulled out from underneath us at some point. People can let us down, leave us, die. Houses can burn to the ground, be taken away. Tragedy happens. Other peoples decisions effect us. The only thing we are garunteed is that God loves us yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It is appropriate to be thankful for the homes we have now. But realizing that there is only one home (Jesus Christ) that can not be taken from us (should we choose to accept it,) will be the truth that sustains us.

This probably should have been 2 seperate blogs. But that’s okay. These are the things on my mind today.