eight years old our family landed in Tucson, Arizona. Fortunately, I grew
up in a Christian home with parents who were very social, so it didn’t take
long for us to make friends. My parents were both very involved in our
church in Tucson. My mother was the Children’s Minister for two years
and my father ran a basketball league in the spring for the children at our
church. My two older brothers and I were really close growing up. We
played the same sports, went to the same schools and never missed
church. For the most part, I had an incredible upbringing, which really
molded me as an adolescent trying to understand what it meant to follow
Jesus.
However, in May of 2005, my parent decided to …show more content…
God was truly at
work in the mess.
By the time, I graduated High School both of my parents remarried
wonderful people and through those marriages we inherited four
incredible step-sisters. Over time, my parents were able to own the
divorce. They stopped playing the blame game. They knew getting a
divorce was a sin, it was not what God had intended for their marriage
and for our family. Watching my parents admit those things and having
them ask me and my brothers for forgiveness was one of the most
powerful things I have ever experienced. As Paul writes in Romans 3:23,
“… for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” When you’re a
child, you don’t see your parents as fallen and broken people. They are
mom and dad. They are the judges of right and wrong. Not many children
have the opportunity to see their parents in that humble state. Many
parents are too prideful to admit when they are wrong and when they have
fallen short, but my parent’s faith in Jesus compelled them to be sincere
and forthright with me and my brothers about their mistakes. The divorce
was messy and there are still obstacles and hurdles that we have