SavedByPiercing

Ever had a lame thanksgiving?...ever had a not-lame thanksgiving? Man, I went home all excited to see my family. My sisters were both going to be home at the same time, my grandparents were going to be there--it really looked like it was going to be cool. (Oh yea, my family rawks. I love 'em all)

We sit down to thanksgiving dinner at like 5:30 or something and Jess was in a hurry to leave at 6 to go out with her friends, Rachel sat at the island in our kitchen because there weren't enough chairs at the table, my mom had an abcess tooth that made her look like the elephant woman, my grandpa was whacked out on a morphine patch, and my dad, who is now missing one of his front teeth, was silent because he is bitter about his life growing up, and me and my wife had to sit on a bench because there weren't enough real chairs.

Good times.

Man, I love these guys. The dinner stunk, but I wouldn't trade 'em for the world.

Just about everyone in my family has got some psycho story, even me. I guess we all do, really. I got an aunt that lost a toe to a lawn mower ( I love that story). I have another aunt that always burns holes in our couches with cigarettes, or the time there was almost a tornado at the family 4th of July party, or the other time when the "Battle of Gettysburg" fireworks fell over and shot at the crowd in my backyard (Rick lost some hair that day), or the time when my cousin fell out the car door going around a corner and clung to the door and dragged in the street, or when they played "Cheeseburger in Paradise" at Aunt Jane's funeral, or when grandpa would take my dad and his brothers to the bar with him and let them play all day, or when my cousin got beat up by her boyfriend, or when my other cousin went to AA, or that one time when my uncle left my aunt for some chick he met on the internet, or the way that my dad's shoulder is almost worn away from work, or when my sister had 3 herniated disks removed from her back when she was only 19, or when my mom broke her back and couldn't work anymore, or that one time that...

Don't think that because I'm a religious guy that I don't know what pain is. I'm a person just like you. I come from a family just like yours. I don't always know why God lets things happen. I do know that He has a reason. [jeremiah 29:11]

He is faithful. Man, is He faithful. Don't doubt it. He knows about your pain. He's been there. That's one of the reasons why Jesus came--to experience life from our point-of-view. He was abandoned, beat down, hated, attacked, lonely, and --or yea-- killed.

He knows your pain better than I ever can.
--09:47