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Saturday 8 February 2014

Back to Zero....

You were born, you lived and experienced a few roller coasters and family trips.  You watched family movies and situation comedies. You made decisions about what a nice family should feel like. At some stage, someone in your immediate experience may have affected you with a form of discipline or the like that they believed was necessary to make you the young family member that would further their expectation of family. It did not match your expectations as far as your Sunday school lessons are concerned and also your experiences in life with your yearly attendance for a Santa Claus photo. Even Harry Potter would not have agreed with it as far as I understand it from a movie theatre trailer.   They called it culture but you never asked your neighbor. His culture did not match what your family did and what your mother and grandmother politely and prayerfully yet maleficently ignored. You went to play "Stay Alive"  or "Life" next door and they seemed quite okay; like what you saw on TV. But, who knows?

You will get to an age when you realise you have a choice. You have a choice everyday to live according to what you know and expect to be right from your initial opinions and experiences in life that made you feel thankful; just when you had formed your expectations of family. Money or resources were only one factor. An old episode of the Waltons or  Little House in the Prairie or Leave it to Beaver might help you remember.   You want to get back to zero( a place of heart and mind) where your earliest expectations of life can flourish with God's help.  Getting back to zero involves forgiving and confessing; where you have forgiven those  who brought about experiences contrary to your earliest and right expectations of family and life and where you have confessed your own steps and actions that you see were directed by the anger and negative hopes of those who may have wanted to dim the truth and joy of your expectations and  leading you to perpetuate a culture of abuse. This is being born again.  






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