Shaking the Dust off my Sandles

Day 299: "And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them." Luke 9:5.The scripture came to me when my father died and I had to deal with my brother and sister over his funeral and his will.

Today, it would come to mind again as I dealt with my niece who had some very harsh words for her mother and at the end of the day all of us. For the last couple of year's I've become very aware of just how much of other people's stuff I take own. I mean literally take on and own it as my own.

I was very proud of myself, as I placed my niece on the shelf with several other family member's who are distractions for where I'm going. This journey I'm on it so amazing that it's really hard to describe how I feel about it all. I can't tell it all because I'm saving some details for the pages of my book. What I can tell you is this, when you get free from people and what they think about you, need from you, and want from you...you're free indeed.

As I was retelling the unpleasant conversation I'd had with my niece to her mother my older sister it was in the presence of my ex-husband. I told my sister her daughter was now on a shelf with our siblings and my ex said, " tell her your ex husband is on that shelf because she won't remarry him." I looked at him in utter shock and unbelief. I can tell you this, they could melt him down and pour him on me and he would not stick. He has never in the 14 years we've been divorced ever asked me to forgive him or say he was sorry. I was stunned and repeated it to me sister like a dofus and kept talking. Wow...really.

I told both my son and daughter and they both just looked at me in unbelief, Then the first born son said, "that is so over." The daughter never did comment. What a strange day.

So, back to the niece. I had decided that wherever God was taking me I was going to make sure my nice and her kids came along. A while ago, I talked about trying to take people with you through the new door you were going through who do not fit. This is a prime example of your word coming back to bite you.

Doesn't mean I love her any less but that's dust I just shook off my sandals. 66 days of blogging..6+6 = 12 and 12 is the number of foundtion. I'm building a new foundation for ACT 2 of my life. God said, "your latter day's would be bette than your former day and you will be blessed more than you ould ask."