On lee's knees

It has dawned a beautiful clear cold morning.  Just finished the Joseph story in Genesis.  What a compelling narrative.  Attempted murder, slavery, false rape charges, hopelessness and then a great renewal and redemption over the plight of the earth.  All this occurring in one family.  It is the story of all families.  We all have great tragedies, sorrows and troubles nesting in our family trees.  Our tree lineages are darkened by all manner of misfits and malcontents.  I know there are many broken, splintered and diseased limbs in my tree.  Grandfathers drinking away fortunes, great uncles still tarrying in far off lands for minor crimes committed years ago and wives’ and mother’ hearts crushed by divorce, drug abuse and death.  But we do not despair, such are all family trees.  But think of the great branches, those tightly engrained into the trunk that is growing ever deeper into the good earth of God’s Heart.  Those ancestors of lore like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or in my case Wayne Lee or Nellie Kimbraugh.  My great branches support limbs like me who, by grace, have grown branches like Aaron and Sissy who have now sprouted Reese, Cora and Knox Lee twigs. 

In my front yard lays a great limb dropped in yesterday’s strong winds.  It had died long ago and had finally fallen when the elements had long beared up against it.  And such is family life.  But the good news, it fell from a great tulip popular still standing strong and steady, waiting out the cold of winter to beautifully bloom in the spring.  Shall this be you?  Yes, we only have to continue to sink our roots into the good richness of God’s Heart, the sweet and life giving, nutrient rich Heart.  Just like Joseph. Don’t you just love family, And God!!!