Easter day started just like any other day...get up and go to work (well for me anyway). My boss surprised me and allowed me to leave at 10am to get ready for our church's last Easter service at 11!
On our way to church Jeffrey received a call from his mother. Now for a normal couple this would be common; however we have had a very dramatic non-relationship with her. She called to ask what our plans were for dinner and invited all three of us (also not normal) to her house. Jeffrey politely said he would have to talk to me and call her back. Then he broke down in tears...I asked him what he wanted to do and all he could say was that he was torn. I know how much he misses the relationship with his mother...
During the service, Pastor Joey begins telling us the story of this man he met named Victor Montalvo (who is now the Pastor at Reality: The Church in Orlando, Fl). Victor was a 17 kid who really didnt know if he was coming or going at that point in his life, and was working at crematorim...a pet crematorium at that. Pastor Joey and his wife took Victor under their wing, and soon Victor began saying a few words at the pets funerals for people. That is how he started his focus on getting into the ministery....
Well, to make a very long story short...the focus of the sermon was that we all need to "bury" these "dead cats and dogs" that are in our souls. Anything that is keeping us from experiencing the person that God has called us to be in life. Well, Jeffrey and I had a lot of "dead cats" in our hearts and for me personally, it was keeping me depressed and crying when I was alone. I knew that God was talking to me...it was finally time to release the hate and hurt that I have been harboring for his mother. During the sermon, I looked at Jeffrey and said, "we need to go to dinner at your moms tonight" and left it at that. After church, we talked about it and he called her.
We arrived for 5 o'clock dinner, and she complimented me on my dress and then came to us and hugged us both, kissed us on the cheek and said she wanted to start over and forget the past. She was tired of crying all the time, and feeling hurt over the pain she has caused us. I was almost in a state of shock, because she had just said what I wanted to say to her. This is a woman who does not have Jesus in her life...but I believe that all of our prayers have finally lended the good Lords hands into her heart, and that is what finally made her extend te invitation to us. We wound up staying until 9 pm, which was way later than we originally planned to stay and had a great visit. It is my hope that she is as ernest and sincere as I was that day. I truly hope that we can reconnect and have the relationship that we once had. Jesus rose from the dead, and so shall our relationship rise from the ashes and heal us all.
On our way to church Jeffrey received a call from his mother. Now for a normal couple this would be common; however we have had a very dramatic non-relationship with her. She called to ask what our plans were for dinner and invited all three of us (also not normal) to her house. Jeffrey politely said he would have to talk to me and call her back. Then he broke down in tears...I asked him what he wanted to do and all he could say was that he was torn. I know how much he misses the relationship with his mother...
During the service, Pastor Joey begins telling us the story of this man he met named Victor Montalvo (who is now the Pastor at Reality: The Church in Orlando, Fl). Victor was a 17 kid who really didnt know if he was coming or going at that point in his life, and was working at crematorim...a pet crematorium at that. Pastor Joey and his wife took Victor under their wing, and soon Victor began saying a few words at the pets funerals for people. That is how he started his focus on getting into the ministery....
Well, to make a very long story short...the focus of the sermon was that we all need to "bury" these "dead cats and dogs" that are in our souls. Anything that is keeping us from experiencing the person that God has called us to be in life. Well, Jeffrey and I had a lot of "dead cats" in our hearts and for me personally, it was keeping me depressed and crying when I was alone. I knew that God was talking to me...it was finally time to release the hate and hurt that I have been harboring for his mother. During the sermon, I looked at Jeffrey and said, "we need to go to dinner at your moms tonight" and left it at that. After church, we talked about it and he called her.
We arrived for 5 o'clock dinner, and she complimented me on my dress and then came to us and hugged us both, kissed us on the cheek and said she wanted to start over and forget the past. She was tired of crying all the time, and feeling hurt over the pain she has caused us. I was almost in a state of shock, because she had just said what I wanted to say to her. This is a woman who does not have Jesus in her life...but I believe that all of our prayers have finally lended the good Lords hands into her heart, and that is what finally made her extend te invitation to us. We wound up staying until 9 pm, which was way later than we originally planned to stay and had a great visit. It is my hope that she is as ernest and sincere as I was that day. I truly hope that we can reconnect and have the relationship that we once had. Jesus rose from the dead, and so shall our relationship rise from the ashes and heal us all.
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