Valuing relationships….

While I was browsing at one of the bloglinks in the blog of one of my bloggerfriends linked in my blog, I came across a meme on a survey conducted at random, and the question was, “What are the three things you would save first should your house be on fire?”

The answers showed many interesting points. In some of the meme’s respondents, a lady blogger said: “I will save my pink gown and fuchsia lipstick”. Another guy blogger said: “I will save my toupee”. But there was a common answer among the respondents. Three of them ended up to be: “I will save the family photographs” and “I will save the letters I have received”.
These answers were consoling and interesting to note that they showed a value despite the materialism of our present society. People still value things that have to do with relationship. Why will people save letters? Why will people save photographs? - Because they remind us of lasting relationships.

Looking at photographs, we remember our friends. Reading the letters (either by snail mail or e-mail) we received, we remember our past happy endings and situations. Gazing at both, we think and hope that our relationships will carry on.

When photographs get burned, when letters get lost (or deleted as in the case of e-mails), our relationships get affected as well.

My dear friends, relationships are important. Not only our relationships with one another but specially our relationship with God. These kinds of relationships are what rusts cannot corrode, what moths cannot destroy, what thieves cannot steal.

Ironically, let me remind you that the things we value, the things that can get lost, the things that can be stolen are also the things that are easy to replace. You can replace money. You can replace a gold wristwatch, a gold earring, a gold ring, and the things that can be stolen are also the things that are easy to replace but you cannot replace your relationship with your friends. You cannot replace your relationship with God. Even when your husband or wife dies and you remarry, that kind of relationship is going to be a new one.

There is only one relationship for everyone because each one of us is unique.

Today- let us lift up to the Lord our special persons- persons whose relationships we really value. Let us lift up the persons we may have taken for granted unknowingly because we know that they are always there when we need them. Let us offer our prayers for the persons we have neglected because we see them too often, much too often.

Let us lift up to the Lord our relationships and ask Him to bless them for as long as we live.

So that at the end of our lives, we will not say, “of course, I have always loved you, only that it didn’t show”.

Bless us all...