Fellowship: With My Family

As much as practicality allows, we have been doing the best we could, as a family, to fellowship and pray together. These days, as my eldest daughter has joined her university in Taipei and my wife is in our home in Taipei caring for our elderly parent, we have been miles apart physically. In fact, a month has elapsed since they went to Taipei. Now and then, we had a WhatsApp group video calls for prayer and fellowship. While we weekly have the family fellowship on Monday nights for those in Gurugram, with those in Taipei, we fellowshipped as and when we could.

Yesterday, I had a time of fellowship with my daughter and learned of all the great things the Lord has been doing in her life. Indeed, the Lord’s bountiful blessing has been bestowed upon her. All the prayers we had been praying for years have been answered one by one. One of the recent answers is related to the Lord’s financial provision for her studies. Whatever we had b in foreing currency, we had spent it to prepare for her new life in Taipei. Then, offerings poured in. Though, the scholarship for her was not applicable from India, still I did not lose the faith. I kept praying. Finally, it was brought to our attention that there is still one more scholarship she is qualified to apply, which my wife confirmed yesterday that the application was submitted. We leave it to the Lord for the approval.

Practically, the Lord took care of us in India as He did in Taiwan. I told my wife that since our parent are ageing and this is the time to care for them as their chidren, I told her not to worry about us in India. Our children have learned to adapt to the changes. In fact, they learned better when given more responsibilities. I encouraged her to do her best to take care of our parents. In fact, this is the way to honor them; make them feel happy, peaceful, joyful, and safe. And that she may stay as long as required and when the need arises, she could come back to India or we would go to Taiwan. The priority is our parent at the moment. I deemed it fit to care for them now when they need us the most.

Ephesians 6:2-3 RecVer

2. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise,

3. “That it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.”

May God bless our parent with good health and long life with full of peace and joy in the spirit.