Family

               Family. What a word. Family encompasses so many things in the heart of a believer. Our biological family we are born into, perhaps a family we marry into, and yet our all encompassing heavenly family here on earth- in Christ.

              Here are some of my favorite photos from this past week with my family and a poem filled with thoughts.

What does it mean that we are family?

I call you sister

I call you brother

Or that our parents brought us into this world

And we find within ourselves

Some uncanny resemblance of generations before

I look at you and I see myself

Sometimes it is disheartening

Yet other times it is eye opening

How did we find ourselves here?

I am here and you are there

And yet we call each other family

It is in Christ I find my answers

In Him my family expands and the depths

They exceed my wildest imagination

I am she and you are her

I am her and you are him

And yet we call each other family

I now call you sister

I now call you brother

Our parents who brought us into the world

They are meant to be a glimpse

Of our eternal heavenly father

And we find within ourselves

Some mysterious difference

Yet in Christ I find my answers

In Him I am she and you are her