Wednesday, September 29, 2010

white hankerchiefs

please watch this video before you read on. the story takes 10 minutes.


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i know this story is allegorical of the way the Father God receives His wayward children back to Himself.

but what got me in the gut was the story of the son and the family itself, and.... being wanted.

some of us will never have an old home to return to, with parents who will love you as you are. with family to receive you, a lineage to find your roots and sense of belonging in.

but He sets the solitary in families.

i am so thankful at this moment for friends in the body of Christ who are family. who set out the white hankerchiefs in such abundance. who say, lynnie, you are wanted here. you are loved. not just tolerated, not just put up with. you are as much a part of our extended family as when God puts a child into any family.

i have brothers and sisters in the body who have put out no solitary little white hankerchief of acceptance, but great big sheets of acceptance strung up and proclaimed in a way that cannot be missed.

God is faithful to give us what we need.

what great gifts God has given me, in those who love me.

~lynnie
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