Transitions Pt. 2

So many people have asked how te transitions have gone, how it has been welcoming Daniel back home.

Praise the Lord, they have gone so very well!  Daniel is amazing- so easily has he returned back to life, here.  Besides waking at 4:30 am every morning for the first week or so because of the time change, and just one night of waking to cold sweats as he dreamt of glass shattering, the transitions have been simple and smooth.  Such praises that there have been such unity and such love and laughter between us.

The hard transitions have been found with Tirzah and her relationship with Daniel- which is to be expected.  Indeed we did expect it: it is just hard to live out.  The first few days seemed to be their honeymoon phase, where she just wanted to be with hi, to be held by him, and to play with him at every waking moment.  Yet after those first initial days, she started to treat him quite harshly and quite disrespectfully.  Perhaps it was because he disciplined her too early?  Perhaps it was another person's presence here?  Who knows.  But she started crying whenever he went to hold her and she started hitting him away and she was absolutely and obviously desiring to be with anyone but her Daddy.

And how hard that has been, is, in those moments of deep hurt and despair.  Tirzah knowing now that Daddy takes Mama's attention away; Tirzah now beginning her understanding of what "Daddy" really means; Tirzah welcoming a man back into her everyday life.  And Daniel.  Deeply saddened for this is his daughter and how he longs to lover her so.  How he, we, both know that he could love her so well if she would but let him.

Reflecting upon this, watching this relationship unfold before my very eyes, it struck me: how God must feel this exact same way, this deep saddening ache of a Father longing to love his children. . . yet divinely, infinitely more.  Doesn't He, above all else, know how well He can love?  If only we would let him.  That when He draws near, it is to embrace, to give, and not to hurt nor to take away.

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Matthew 7:11

Oh!   That we might allow Him to love us this day.  That we might allow him to love in the way for which He longs.