One's Kin Ablazed

So, this weekend has been the Families on Fire conference at TACF, and it's been pretty cool. Just thinking about family and all and I think I have some thoughts...
I had the opportunity to be a part of the prophetic presbytery team at the conference today and got to prophecy over about six or seven families, I think. Good times! Also kind of sad at times though, you tend to start to see things that aren't the greatest, thing in their lives that need healing. It's great though, because you also get to see a whole tonne of awesome stuff. It was really cool, because it's not something I get to do all the time, this whole prophesying thing, but I love it. There's a certain vibe, a certain feeling, a 'je ne sais pas' about some families. You can just feel the unique spirit about them, and it's really... well, it's really cool. My own family has its own unique spirit. I'm trying to understand my family better, I've often felt different from them. I'm the only one in my immediate family who is musical, and there are other things that, throughout my life, I'm just unique in. It can be hard for me, my brother doesn't go to church, and just doesn't have a sense of the spiritual side of life. It's scary sometimes and often very frustrating. I digress...

Family is cool, and it's really important. I don't think we value our families enough when we've been in them for so long. But then people start families and all the sudden it's the biggest thing ever. Then they tend to balance out. I can't wait to start a family. I love kids and I love family, but I'm also really excited for the things that God has shown me about my wife and kids to come. A lot of it I can't even qualify, it's just senses and feelings of the things that we'll do and the things that we'll be. I'm really looking forward to the great level of God's spirit that he's going to grow in me through my wife and family. It'll be good.

To break this down and wrap it up, let's treasure our families, there's nothing like them and God has us in them for a reason. Let's appreciate them and love them. Your family is unique and has a specific destiny and calling. It has a unique spirit that no other family could have. God loves family, he is, in himself, a family, and he's created us to be in families for a reason. It's because they're awesome.