Birthday

What a glorious morning!

Tim’s 60^th birthday was about a month ago. We had a great celebration with all the kids and spouses and grandkids and assorted pets. Had a typical Glaser gathering with fun and laughter and competition, and a few moments of fussing. Normal family times. When all was said and done, however, we were a family and we each did what we did best, some cooked and some organized and some cleaned and some watched kids – and the guys played a lot of golf. Everyone together watched the little ones, and the dogs, and when something needed done someone stepped up and did it. Of course there were those moments when someone would go and hide during times when things needed done, or a mistimed nap, or someone didn’t react quite fast enough and of course someone noticed and someone said something. Just another family gathering. Through it all, we knew we enjoyed each other’s company, enjoyed the time together and as we left to go back home and moved back into the regular routines and our own lives, we appreciated we were able to have this time together. Sound familiar? We are the family of God and as we join together in our church communities as a local congregation we act just like our families. We enjoy our time together, we help one another and work together; we each do what we do best and sometimes we slack off or hide and of course someone notices and says something. Then we fuss a little. And after we have spent time together in the church, some good times and some contentious time, we move out into our everyday lives – separate from one another but still connected by our ‘family’ pulled together not by genetics, but by our relationship with Jesus Christ. As we work together as God’s people, we need to remember God gave us family so we could learn to be His family. Working, spending time together, helping each other out, picking up the slack for someone else, sometimes fussing and forgiving – but through it all knowing that we are together and we love one another because Christ first loved us. What a fortunate life we as God’s people have – we have two families, and they both act about the same!

Amen!!

Joanne

These devotions began in 2006 as a way to give us a midweek boost as we live out our lives as the people of God!