Water is Thicker Than Blood - Can I get an Amen Please !

Today has been so hard, I have cried at every turn. It has been days since I have been on the internet, email or even facebook. I have been on emotional shut down. I don't want to talk to anyone, see anyone, answer the phone, see the TV, answer the door, go to work, read the mail or get out of bed..but I do...because water is thicker than blood...does that make any since...the people that don't have my blood running thru their veins make me get out of bed, they make me go to work , they make me answer the door, they make me go to work, they make me go to the nursing home, they make me eat, they make me read the mail, they give me a reason to keep on keeping on. Why, because they need me..they love me and they depend on me.

The only person in the world who had my blood pulsing in his veins was killed 3 weeks ago today. He was the only one that was literally a part of my very being, a part of my body and soul, yet when he died I didn't..God chose to allow me to live. HE continues to make the breath of my life go in and out every second of everyday. HE continues to make the beat of my heart go on every second of every minute..HE and only HE knows the job HE has in store for me for the rest of my earthly life.

Why because water is thicker than blood....just because Bo had my blood running in his veins didn't make him love me, it was by GOD's amazing Grace. It was the hours I held him and rocked him to sleep, the time spent loving him and holding him when there was no one else to..it was all the times he was broken and needed to be put back together. It was bedtime stories, sitting by his bedside in the hospital when he was sick, mac and cheese, brownies, Muppets Movies, Winnie the Pooh stories, coloring outside the lines, camping and fishing, swinging in the park, skating and hot dogs with mustard and ketchup and much much more. Blood doesn't make you a parent the cleansing water of our Almighty GOD is what grants you the ablility to be a parent.

Bo loved David and Jill for the same reason not because of any blood, but because of the cleansing water of Jesus, it was the love they showed him from day one. The Winnie the Pooh movie where he offered to hold Jill's hand in case she was afraid, the Boy Scout Race Car David and he made from scratch, the Father Son Thanksgiving Cake contest when neither one of them could cook, the Easter trip to the family cabin at Lick Creek, swimming at Beaver Lake, trips to Silver Dollar City, sitting at home watching TV, being held during those horrible thunderstorms, collecting baseball cards, birthday parties with jokes between a boy and his Dad that Mom and Jill were not allowed to be apart of....Water is thicker than blood...even when it is my blood coursing thru his veins...

I have always been proud of the relationship that our blended family has had, it is rare and a crowning achievement to the glory of GOD ... lots of people never realized that Bo and Jill weren't biological siblings..but then again I must say that Water is thicker than Blood....we thank GOD everyday for the blessings that HE gave to us for our Twins by Marriage....these 2 amazing and wonderful children who grew up together, loved each other, helped each other when times were tough and now prove over and over that water is forever thicker than blood..