I have been following this series on TV called "Parenthood" which is about the lives of one big family and the everyday life and struggles in each of their lives.
It includes the story of a brother and sister living with their mother and grandparents. The father comes in town and visits them after what seems a long while. The father and a daughter, have a verbal war and the father who was in town visiting leaves. She apologizes to her brother who longs for a relationship with his father at which point he says "If he was a real father, nothing you could ever do could make him leave"
And that's true! In a real relationship there are hardships and hurts but nothing a person can do can make us leave when we choose the way of love. (Unless of course it is an abusive relationship.) The power of love is being there for a person through thick and thin, joy and pain and so the wedding vows resound "I take thee to have and to hold, from this day forward for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, (and all that life brings in between) to love and to cherish 'till death do us part."
My Darling, I may not be a lot of things, but I will be there for you, always.
Dear Mister God this is @ina...Enable us to be there for every isolated stranger who you have put on our paths and to know that you are always, always there for us.
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