Comments on: Mom http://restoredbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/mom/ The Lord restores the broken hearted. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tricia http://restoredbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/mom/#comment-32 Tricia Sun, 04 May 2008 13:35:20 +0000 http://restoredbyhim.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-32 Yes, there is an opportunity to restore my relationship with my mother as she is still alive. After I wrote that post I knew that I had to do something - after all when God reveals something to us we need to respond in obedience. So, I called my mom. It was a very short conversation as she is in a nursing home, but it was a start. Then, her birthday was in March so I sent this beautiful bouquet of white roses and white daisies in a blue vase. I just found out yesterday from my sister that Mom told everyone that the flowers were from her daughter in California, and that instead of sending the vase home with my sister, which she usually does, she has kept it with her. Now, to me that is an amazing reaction from my mom. She has also written me two letters, which I have devoured. Dealing with my mom is still "hard place", but as I reach out to her, God is plowing up the ground for a new planting. :) Thanks for your comment. Yes, there is an opportunity to restore my relationship with my mother as she is still alive. After I wrote that post I knew that I had to do something – after all when God reveals something to us we need to respond in obedience. So, I called my mom. It was a very short conversation as she is in a nursing home, but it was a start. Then, her birthday was in March so I sent this beautiful bouquet of white roses and white daisies in a blue vase. I just found out yesterday from my sister that Mom told everyone that the flowers were from her daughter in California, and that instead of sending the vase home with my sister, which she usually does, she has kept it with her. Now, to me that is an amazing reaction from my mom. She has also written me two letters, which I have devoured.

Dealing with my mom is still “hard place”, but as I reach out to her, God is plowing up the ground for a new planting. :)

Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Deanna http://restoredbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/mom/#comment-29 Deanna Sun, 04 May 2008 04:37:10 +0000 http://restoredbyhim.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-29 This is a hard place - I still have some of these same issues with my mom that still need to be resolved. It is a hard thing to see that the same mercy that I've greedily grabbed from the hand of God for myself, I've held tightly and refused to extend to so many others, my mother included. As long as your mother, and mine, are still on this earth there is opportunity for those relationships to be healed and restored to some level, to at least have a healthier relationship. but if I (we) refuse to share the same mercy that's been given to us then what hope can we possibly have? If it were all about me and what I want to do and am capable of doing...well, I just don't have it in me - apart from Christ - only He can work that in any of us. I know this is a hard place, I hope you are still working on this. This is a hard place – I still have some of these same issues with my mom that still need to be resolved. It is a hard thing to see that the same mercy that I’ve greedily grabbed from the hand of God for myself, I’ve held tightly and refused to extend to so many others, my mother included.

As long as your mother, and mine, are still on this earth there is opportunity for those relationships to be healed and restored to some level, to at least have a healthier relationship. but if I (we) refuse to share the same mercy that’s been given to us then what hope can we possibly have?

If it were all about me and what I want to do and am capable of doing…well, I just don’t have it in me – apart from Christ – only He can work that in any of us.

I know this is a hard place, I hope you are still working on this.

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