Comments on: Battling with your parents? http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/ Just another Tmcyouth.com weblog Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: Steve Helmer http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/#comment-1556 Steve Helmer Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:07:59 +0000 http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/#comment-1556 Little Joe, Hi. Glad this helped. Yea, little things can look really huge at the time. Some distance can pull us back, together. I hope you know you really aren’t alone, looking back, maybe with regrets. Don’t be too tough on yourself. We all live and learn—move beyond past stuff. You may remember what’s one of my favorite Old Testament stories, about two brothers, Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33). A very messy family history. Jacob and his brother are at odds right from the get go. The parents play favorites. It all implodes, with Jacob running for his life after tricking Esau out of his blessing, and having to live far away with relatives. But in the end, this toxic blend of human personalities gets remixed—the “curse” broken. God saves them from the worst, deeply changes them, and puts them back together as family—as real brothers. They find they can just drop the whole sad feud—hurt feelings, stone walling, revenge—, forgive and return home, into God’s warm embrace. No matter how much bad blood, how strong the smell of smoke left over, God can “restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten” (Joel 2: 25), bless everyone. Be well. Steve Little Joe,

Hi. Glad this helped.

Yea, little things can look really huge at the time. Some distance can pull us back, together.

I hope you know you really aren’t alone, looking back, maybe with regrets.

Don’t be too tough on yourself. We all live and learn—move beyond past stuff. You may remember what’s one of my favorite Old Testament stories, about two brothers, Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33).

A very messy family history. Jacob and his brother are at odds right from the get go. The parents play favorites. It all implodes, with Jacob running for his life after tricking Esau out of his blessing, and having to live far away with relatives.

But in the end, this toxic blend of human personalities gets remixed—the “curse” broken. God saves them from the worst, deeply changes them, and puts them back together as family—as real brothers.

They find they can just drop the whole sad feud—hurt feelings, stone walling, revenge—, forgive and return home, into God’s warm embrace.

No matter how much bad blood, how strong the smell of smoke left over, God can “restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten” (Joel 2: 25), bless everyone.

Be well.

Steve

]]> By: Rachel http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/#comment-1549 Rachel Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:58:33 +0000 http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/#comment-1549 Thank you ever so much for writing that blog, it was so helpful. I have often wondered what the best approach for healing is when I am struggling to get along with family members. Your blog really helps me to think about what I can think of when I am trying to find something to pray with. Thank you ever so much for writing that blog, it was so helpful. I have often
wondered what the best approach for healing is when I am struggling to get along with family members. Your blog really helps me to think about what I can think of when I am trying to find something to pray with.

]]> By: Little Joe http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/#comment-1548 Little Joe Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:18:06 +0000 http://tmcyouth.com/blogs/healing/battling-parents/#comment-1548 Man I wish I had taken this to heart while I was in my teens - now that I'm in my twenties I see that so much of what I used to argue with my parents about was so unnecessary. Thanks for a very thought filled blog. Man I wish I had taken this to heart while I was in my teens - now that I’m in my twenties I see that so much of what I used to argue with my parents about was so unnecessary. Thanks for a very thought filled blog.

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