The blessing of Abraham...........
In numbers there is a prayer for blessing as below :
‘“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
It is in the book of numbers and i remember my mother used to say that prayer over me when i was about to leave home for a long time. Yesterday the priest in my local church gave a homily about how we often times wonder why our lives are not right and yet we have ignored or abandoned our parents!
God's blessings come to children through their parents and if we neglect them or abandon them, we cannot hope to live a happy life! How many people actually live close by their parents but have spent months or even years without checking on them? Distance should however not be an excuse because we have so many means of communication today. Even making a phone call to check on them is too difficult for many of us!
We will never be able to repay back our parents for giving us life. Yes, sometimes parents can disappoint us and even be cruel to us but we need to learn how to forgive them and move on. Unless you are parent, you cannot even imagine what it means to bring up a child safely into adulthood. We cannot even imagine the sacrifices our parents had to make to bring us to where we are!
Lord, thank you for the invaluable gift of parents and family......may we be united under the model of the holy family of Nazareth. Amen.
‘“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
It is in the book of numbers and i remember my mother used to say that prayer over me when i was about to leave home for a long time. Yesterday the priest in my local church gave a homily about how we often times wonder why our lives are not right and yet we have ignored or abandoned our parents!
God's blessings come to children through their parents and if we neglect them or abandon them, we cannot hope to live a happy life! How many people actually live close by their parents but have spent months or even years without checking on them? Distance should however not be an excuse because we have so many means of communication today. Even making a phone call to check on them is too difficult for many of us!
We will never be able to repay back our parents for giving us life. Yes, sometimes parents can disappoint us and even be cruel to us but we need to learn how to forgive them and move on. Unless you are parent, you cannot even imagine what it means to bring up a child safely into adulthood. We cannot even imagine the sacrifices our parents had to make to bring us to where we are!
Lord, thank you for the invaluable gift of parents and family......may we be united under the model of the holy family of Nazareth. Amen.
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