FRIDAY! Happy! Happy! Happy!

It sure is Friday and I sure am happy.  But I'm also hit hard in the suffering that goes on in this world. I think on  the "me" and "I" and not the "we".  The quickest way for me to get past my own past shame is to get busy in the life Christ has now shown me to live.  He rescued me. He brought me out of darkness no one should find ok.  But He is showing me that with this life comes responsibility - and it's not one bit what would be considered "normal".   This is radical, intense and goes against what the billboards, commercials, or  people tell me is truly living.  I am so thankful my husband and adult kids have been there for me through the sick, thick and thin.  The support and encouragement they have given me has been a role model of forgivenss that I can barely type here.  Without their love and forgiveness I just don't think I could have made it.  Today I want to think about the children with no home.  The children unprotected.  To be noticed might mean their very life later.