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What Happen to my Baby Boy?

During the summer of my son going into 9th grade, he decided to move in with us. I was super excited because he was nine months old when his mother and I got divorced. The night he moved in I cried as I finally had a chance to be a full time father to him. The next year was heartache. It seemed liked we did nothing but fight and the joy was taken away by grief. We had never had a teenager in the house and he wasn’t use to how we ran our home. Also, he brought with him 15 years of aggression and frustration from the divorce. After living with us for a year, he decided to move back home with his mother. Four years later, our relationship is still going through recovery but it is a continual trial. I see other father and son relationships and yearn for that in my life but I give him to God every day. I know I will have that relationship one day but God is still working in both of us and when He is done, His perfection will show in our love for each other. The apostles and disciples of Jesus went through numerous trials in their lives. Many were beaten, thrown in jail and some even killed for their belief. One thing they all had in common was their steadfast faith in Him. James could testify to trials as seeing Jesus crucified and himself go through various obstacles for his faith. James writes in his book James 1:4 “But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” It’s human nature to want to be in control of our lives. To take every situation and handle it our self when the best option for us is to give it to God and let him have His way. I still don’t know how the trial will end with my son but I know when it does, I will look back and see God’s plan. Understand that every trial we go through will one day be used as a testimony for God’s will in our lives. It is after we come out victorious in Him that we can be used to speak into other’s lives that may be going through the same thing.  

 Nathan  Garza