Family.... sigh

I love the effect people have on me when they say something about my blogging. I don't really do this for people as much as I do it for myself but when someone says something it's like a nudge from God himself. In an email a friend just sticks a little line in there and says "keep blogging". I don't really know if he said that because i haven't blogged in a few days or if he's just being generally encouraging. But I answered and said that if I blogged it would look something like this....

Family.....sigh.

God is Good.

Then, of course, I decided that I should blog this. My mind has been much on real time family dynamics the last few days. I've touched a little on family and what I believe God is doing in mine. I tried to find the post where I talked about the book The Shack and how through an illustration in that book I can see my family as a fractal - a garden - ever changing.

In the book Mac is with Sariyu (spelling?) who is Holy Spirit and they go out to work in a garden and in that garden many things are being pulled up and gotten rid of, other things are being moved around and other things are being planted. Hard work. Things being dug up by the roots - deep roots. In the book that garden - which Sariyu calls a fractal - is Mac's life.

That's how I see my little family at this point in time. Sometimes Holy Spirit lets everything rest then suddenly he says Hmmmm I think we need to do something with this and that and well, this other affects that other so we need to do something here.

I embrace this process as the Goodness of God at work in the midst of broken humanity. Our humanity. Individual transformation journeys spilling over onto other's transformation journeys.

And I sigh - there's work involved here.

And I say - God is Good and his promises are yea and amen.