Have you suffered in your home

Have you been a member within your family which is or has gone through 'suffering'? When one member suffers the rest suffer also?

And until those who are suffering can be better, all the others remain together in edifying and helping during the times of 'suffering'.

Rather than fleeing from the home which has the persecution of suffering within it, a person chooses to hold on to family rather than fleeing for the pleasures of self joy. Have you been a part of such and if so, how much were you able to endure? Did you see the ordeal to its end?

Haven't we all, at one time or another?

Elvira said:

Haven't we all, at one time or another?

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That's what I was thinking but somehow it doesn't seem true. Because does 'suffering' really stop in any home indefinitely?


They say that retirement age are the 'Golden years'... Maybe because they no longer need 'suffering' in their homes. What a treat it would be to have those retired ones in the homes of their children whose homes are filled with sporadic episodes of suffering. It would help 'buffer' those events, maybe?


A man shall leave mother and father and be joined with his wife and shall be one flesh..

Matthew 19:5 "And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?"


I think for the retired ones to live with their children who have married, the best way would be for the male to be cleaved to his wife and her side of the family so that if and when his wife's father passes, he can be there, along with his wife to care for her mother, his mother in law.


Hence taking care of your own widowed mother(s).


1 Timothy 5:4 "But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God."


nephew:
1549. ekgonos
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
nephew.
Neuter of a derivative of a compound of ek and ginomai; a descendant, i.e. (specially) grandchild -- nephew.

Suffering is the common part of living and nobody enjoys it. I know what its like to suffer and lose everything. I know what its like to deeply reflect back on my life and see all the things I could have done to make it better. But there came a point in my life where I no longer need to look back because I realized I was in the place the Lord needed me to be in. I realized that had I had my way in life things around me would not have gone well and my poor decisions of the past were just meant to be. I reflect back now and see the hand of God guiding me through all those hard pitfalls of life and leading me down a road which is better in the long run, for myself, as well as others. So I have given up all the pleasures of this world to serve God because it is better this way.