Today I received a text from an unknown number.
“Your kids keep climbing my tree, please ask them to stop.”
My first reaction was to laugh, because my kids are all in their 20s. If they’re climbing the neighbor’s tree, they’re grownups and responsible for themselves! I replied that I wished my kids were out climbing trees!
I looked up the area code, and discovered that the number was from another country. Definitely not one of my neighbors. I sent them another text with a bit of advice.
“I’m not your neighbor, but perhaps a warm apple pie and some tea might provide a good backdrop for opening up the lines of communication!”
Not that I expected one, but I’ve received no response.
Mending relationships, or even building new ones, requires a sacrifice of time and intentionality. Understanding what can be gained makes it all worthwhile!
The greatest act of relationship mending came through Christ, and I am so grateful.
“For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God” (Romans 5:10-11 NLT).
If you feel far from God, take heart, my friend. He’s only a breath away. ❤️
This post is my first response in a long while to Kate Motaung’s Five Minute Friday link-up! These prompts are fun to respond to, and only take five minutes to compose. I would like to continue joining in every week! I’ve got two graduate courses starting again on Monday which will require a lot of written pages, but I hope I can squeeze in five fun minutes a week at my laptop.
I’m also attempting to paint with watercolors for 31 days of creativity. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it so far, and I applied this prompt to that as well: little stem stitches trying to mend spaces between painted lines. It’s not lovely, but it’s authentically mine!
Lauri Hawley 