Hello everyone. How are you doing? How has the weekend been?
Inspite of the fact that DSTV are "showing" themselves (that's an entire post on its own), weekends like this one are made in ______, they don't last. (You can fill in the gap yourself, lol).
Our theme scripture today in church was Esther 2: 5-7. I'm not pleased to announce that it took me F-O-R-E-V-E-R to flip my "paper" Bible to the passage. (I remember one funny post in Group 1 where we debated if it was okay to... use electronic Bibles and some of those comments still have me LOLing. Let me return to my lane).
Somehow, I found myself scribling notes about Mordecai that I think are worth sharing, in light of some of the things one reads in the news (Father rapes daughter and she goes deaf...).
1. Mordecai was an unmarried man YET he adopted his orphaned cousin.
2. There were no #StoriesThatTouch about him molesting her, though she was beautiful and had a good feature. Yeah, I've heard some blame mothers of children that have been molested by their fathers for the evil perpetrated by these men. According to them, the fathers molest their kids because the mothers are too busy making money...Please, pick up your jaw, thanks. Lol.
3. Mordecai BROUGHT Esther up! Someone once said men are incapable of raising kids without "outside help" whereas women are able to raise their kids "without outside help". FYI, NO ONE can raise kids alone without "outside help". I firmly believe that parenting was never designed to be a job for 1 person. I know circumstances can make one a single parent but if single moms are honest, they'll remember that there was/is a grandma/grandpa/sister/brother/uncle/aunty/cousin/friend/nanny/driver (add your own) that lightens (lightened) their burden. I have a few thoughts for single parents but I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. Just watch this space for details of that effort...
Back to Mordecai, the Bible tells us that he brought Esther (Hadassah) up (and responsibly too).
4. The helpless orphaned cousin that Mordecai took in was INSTRUMENTAL to the salvation of the Jews. Be careful how you treat the "helpless" you meet today; they MAY very well turn out to be your destiny helpers.
Inspite of the fact that DSTV are "showing" themselves (that's an entire post on its own), weekends like this one are made in ______, they don't last. (You can fill in the gap yourself, lol).
Our theme scripture today in church was Esther 2: 5-7. I'm not pleased to announce that it took me F-O-R-E-V-E-R to flip my "paper" Bible to the passage. (I remember one funny post in Group 1 where we debated if it was okay to... use electronic Bibles and some of those comments still have me LOLing. Let me return to my lane).
Somehow, I found myself scribling notes about Mordecai that I think are worth sharing, in light of some of the things one reads in the news (Father rapes daughter and she goes deaf...).
1. Mordecai was an unmarried man YET he adopted his orphaned cousin.
2. There were no #StoriesThatTouch about him molesting her, though she was beautiful and had a good feature. Yeah, I've heard some blame mothers of children that have been molested by their fathers for the evil perpetrated by these men. According to them, the fathers molest their kids because the mothers are too busy making money...Please, pick up your jaw, thanks. Lol.
3. Mordecai BROUGHT Esther up! Someone once said men are incapable of raising kids without "outside help" whereas women are able to raise their kids "without outside help". FYI, NO ONE can raise kids alone without "outside help". I firmly believe that parenting was never designed to be a job for 1 person. I know circumstances can make one a single parent but if single moms are honest, they'll remember that there was/is a grandma/grandpa/sister/brother/uncle/aunty/cousin/friend/nanny/driver (add your own) that lightens (lightened) their burden. I have a few thoughts for single parents but I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. Just watch this space for details of that effort...
Back to Mordecai, the Bible tells us that he brought Esther (Hadassah) up (and responsibly too).
4. The helpless orphaned cousin that Mordecai took in was INSTRUMENTAL to the salvation of the Jews. Be careful how you treat the "helpless" you meet today; they MAY very well turn out to be your destiny helpers.
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