“Welcome To My Family”
“To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved.”
Ephesians 1:6 (KJV)
I remember an interesting song by my friend Tennessee Ernie Ford – “Hand Me Down Things” – only hand me down things!!
When I was young times were hard
Money was hard to get;
The world I knew was my back yard,
My folks were poor and in debt.
Of all us kids I was the youngest one,
And always the last in line.
The toys I got and the clothes I wore
Were theirs before they were mine.
I was born after the great depression and life wasn’t that special when I was a kid. Being the second last kid in a line of 10 was not easy. In fact, it could be said that in many ways I felt a lot of rejection.
In his book “The Ins and Out of Rejection”, Charles Solomon, says: “Rejection is a family thing, and today it is a psychological disturbance of epidemic proportions.” Solomon believes that all of us suffer to some extent with emotional disturbances usually caused by a lack of parental acceptance during our early years. He claims, that for various reasons our parents withheld certain expressions of affection and affirmation, which we so desperately needed.
As a result we have grown up with feelings of rejection. We are crying out “No one really loves me! No one truly believes in me! I’m not wanted or needed!” This sense of rejection increases as we grow into adults. And so we try to develop ways to handle it.
We develop habits or ways to express our hurts, either as Aggression or Repression.
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We praise God for our dear friend, Pastor Andrew Hollier, in Australia. He has given us permission to use his trifold Bible Studies on key topics. We have them now on our webpage. www.prisonmission.org/free-bible-lessons/ scroll down and to the right side of the lesson webpage. We have over sixty of them. We will post one for our blog every week over the rest of this year! So, check our website each week to get the newest Bible Studies!