Faithful

The difference between these 2 pictures are more than 20 years apart.

I am reflecting through some old pictures lately and find myself thinking through the years or growing up and what has become of me and the events that has taken place.

I am thinking much of these simply because I have seen much of the lives around me and how many have fallen away to brokenness. I have seen how brokenness came in the form of divorce, death, resentment, grudge and so forth.

I praise God for His never failing faithfulness that is clearly exemplified through my family and the sustenance that is kept in my family. It has come to a point of understanding that my perspective of family and society is very much shaped by my experiences from my own. Such that so much of my assurance and security of family is because God in His sovereignty has placed me with these parents, that shaped me and my siblings to understand the core and the purpose of family, and along with that the foundations of marriage as well.

Perfection does not define my family, understanding that all 5 of us have our very own flaws and weakness that is very undeniable. But the goodness as I have come to understand is that God's grace is made known through all of it and the unity and peace that is still lingering among the 5 of us is simply the work of grace and grace alone.

Obedience to His will is something that I know we all strive for the very best we can, and the through the hardships that came along the way only painted a more unequivocal grace of God that is ever so faithful.