The wisdom of a mother and the commentary of her daughter

For the first time on this blog I am going to write about my personal life. I’m going to write about my family. I come from a family of six people. Yes, that means two parents and four kids (who’d have thought?). I come from a very funny family. I’m also told that my family is a little weird. I’m proud of that. I’m proud of them and love them very much.

Yesterday I was talking to my mom about one of my little sisters (she’s 19 and bigger than me…big little sister). My little sis is involved in a relationship with a guy that she’s known for a few months. They met at the college that I graduated from, which they are both attending right now. This college has a lot of strict rules, and my little sis doesn’t always handle rules very well (I don’t really blame her…I don’t really handle them well all the time either, I just manage to hide it better). So because of some stuff happening, she’s been threatening to leave the school. My mum told me that and I wasn’t surprised, really. But them my mum said something that I found to be very wise. She said,

It’s better to obey something you don’t like and be in God’s will than to partake of the fruit and get kicked out of Eden.

She’s right. My mum is extremely smart. She has to be because she survived having four kids. Actually, she’s not really done surviving yet. She still has to survive our adult lives, which seem to be very trying for her at times. I mean, if you knew my family history you’d understand. Just for example, her oldest daughter is in Holland for only God knows how long, her son is in Arizona taking pictures and probably doing other things that we’re not told about, her next daughter is in love with a guy she’s known a few months and discussing marriage with him, and her youngest daughter is almost graduated from high school and has just broken up the longest relationship she’s ever had (not necessarily a bad thing…I’m actually proud of her). That’s just one thing for each kid, and each kid has so much more behind him or her that I’m sure we cause my mum to receive more gray hairs weekly. My dad handles the stress much better. His hair isn’t turning gray at all (sorry dad, couldn’t resist).

But really, think about mum’s quote again before exiting the page. It might be useful later on in life. Perhaps it’s useful in the here and now. How many of us are willing to “get kicked out of Eden” just so that we can “partake of the fruit”? (By the way, if anyone is confused with those phrases please read Genesis 3 and it’ll be “oh so clear now”.) Perhaps that something that I also need to think over a few times before I head into the rest of my day. Of course, I always have a hard time with invisible barriers…I don’t know if I even know what God’s will for my life is anymore. But besides that lack of detail, when it comes to the set barriers, the ones that aren’t changeable, I know I can apply the above quote. I hope to always do that. Of course, if I am always walking with God then I don’t supposed that I’ll have the opportunity to touch that fruit because I’ll be constantly aware of His watching. Perhaps we only touch that fruit when we allow ourselves a short walk without God by our side. In fact, if Eve had still been walking beside God that day (as was their habit, I believe) would the serpent have even shown up? Hmmm…not likely. I think I’ll go deepen my walk with God now.