Friends and Family
I have watched basically all of the Lethal Weapon movies in the last 2 days. If you can stand the f-bomb and some nudity, they are actually good movies. I've watched them several times in the past, but I hadn't watched them recently. After last week I just felt like I needed a chill weekend. So I've done nothing, but watch movies...and hang out with friends.
Anyway, so I started watching the Lethal Weapons movies, and I realized something that I never really noticed before. Amid the usual rough and tough, shoot 'em up action there is an underlying theme about family.
The first movie introduces us to Riggs, a Vietnam vet and cop who gets partnered with a middle aged husband and father of three. And they do not hit it off. Riggs is half crazy from loosing his wife in a car accident and is always looking for trouble. He has no family, no close friends, no one. But the most unlikely friendship springs up between him and his partner. As the progression of movies continues (there are four in all), you see the this group of people come together from different backgrounds, from different points of view and from different lives to form a family. At the end of the fourth movie, they take a group picture and the man who had no family has this amazing and beautiful and diverse family.
I think that is such an innate part of human nature. We long to be loved and accepted. We long to have a "family" in whatever form that takes in our lives. I have been incredibly blessed with two amazing families. One is my biological family. I could not ask for a better Mom and Dad and Sister. They are the most amazing people I know. They love me unconditionally. They support me no matter what endeavor I am undertaking. I literally could not ask for a better family.
Then there is my second family--the family I have picked for myself with a little help from God along the way. These are the people I live life with. They are my church family. They are my close circle of friends. They are the ones who are there to sit and chat over a cup of coffee, who listen to my problems, who comfort me when I am sad. And when I need to cry at the front of the church on Sunday morning, they are the ones who come and cry with me and pray for me.
I mourned for my church this morning. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to not have my church. I didn't realize how incredibly attached I was and still am to it. I went back to a church that I had not been to in over a year. And at that time that church was what I needed, but it is a big church. I was there with friends, but the entire service I just wanted to cry, and there was no chair for me to go pray and cry at. There was no one there to pray over me, who knew the issues in my life right then. I was lost in a sea of people and crying in my heart.
"And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19
This verse just came to mind in regards to my current situation of needing a job. God is faithful, and I hope I will be able to report a job related praise very soon. Until then, this is my comfort and my reassurance. My God is faithful, and He will provide for me. He always has, and He always will.
Well, I have a bunch of work I need to do tomorrow, so I need to sign off and head towards getting ready for bed. Peace out yo!
Anyway, so I started watching the Lethal Weapons movies, and I realized something that I never really noticed before. Amid the usual rough and tough, shoot 'em up action there is an underlying theme about family.
The first movie introduces us to Riggs, a Vietnam vet and cop who gets partnered with a middle aged husband and father of three. And they do not hit it off. Riggs is half crazy from loosing his wife in a car accident and is always looking for trouble. He has no family, no close friends, no one. But the most unlikely friendship springs up between him and his partner. As the progression of movies continues (there are four in all), you see the this group of people come together from different backgrounds, from different points of view and from different lives to form a family. At the end of the fourth movie, they take a group picture and the man who had no family has this amazing and beautiful and diverse family.
I think that is such an innate part of human nature. We long to be loved and accepted. We long to have a "family" in whatever form that takes in our lives. I have been incredibly blessed with two amazing families. One is my biological family. I could not ask for a better Mom and Dad and Sister. They are the most amazing people I know. They love me unconditionally. They support me no matter what endeavor I am undertaking. I literally could not ask for a better family.
Then there is my second family--the family I have picked for myself with a little help from God along the way. These are the people I live life with. They are my church family. They are my close circle of friends. They are the ones who are there to sit and chat over a cup of coffee, who listen to my problems, who comfort me when I am sad. And when I need to cry at the front of the church on Sunday morning, they are the ones who come and cry with me and pray for me.
I mourned for my church this morning. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to not have my church. I didn't realize how incredibly attached I was and still am to it. I went back to a church that I had not been to in over a year. And at that time that church was what I needed, but it is a big church. I was there with friends, but the entire service I just wanted to cry, and there was no chair for me to go pray and cry at. There was no one there to pray over me, who knew the issues in my life right then. I was lost in a sea of people and crying in my heart.
"And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19
This verse just came to mind in regards to my current situation of needing a job. God is faithful, and I hope I will be able to report a job related praise very soon. Until then, this is my comfort and my reassurance. My God is faithful, and He will provide for me. He always has, and He always will.
Well, I have a bunch of work I need to do tomorrow, so I need to sign off and head towards getting ready for bed. Peace out yo!
Lissa, I know it's hard. I can't tell you how much I disliked sleeping in Sunday morning. It was terrible. And this is me...the girl who values sleep usually above all else.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still here, and there is still an office in potter's house with a chair that has also seen a few tears and we'll make it somehow. I promise! MWAH! chin up my darling. coffee later?