I was reminded of this movie today, especially the Christmas scene as Lucy sits in this family's living room and looks around at all the "family" going on around her.
Today I had the opportunity to do the same...to soak it in and wonder, "Do they have any idea how lucky they really are?"
I know beneath the surface you'll always find some thorns...
That the best glimpses we have now are merely a hint of what we'll find in our eternal home...
Yet I remember that God puts the lonely in families (or, according to other translations, the desolate in a homeland).
And Ruth found a Boaz...
She who was widowed, childless, and then a foreigner in another land had family restored because
As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech...
and
Just then
Just
then...
Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted his workers.
It makes me wonder if, perhaps, even in this temporal world some level of security can perhaps be found. At least for awhile.
(I am not implying that marriage is always the answer for this. I mean to say, instead, that perhaps God's hand continues to guide others...that perhaps the life of the lonely can become more than stubborn survival, deeply coiled roots, and the battering wind of a rocky plain. Perhaps life can also be sunshine and gentle showers. At times. Or at least the reassuring solidarity of the consistent companionship of just a few others.)
To be able to forget for a moment that this, too, might one day end. And to remember, instead, this is the first day of a better forever. A short glimpse of what we will increasingly look forward to as yet to come...
As it eases the wait time it will take for us to get there.
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