After three weeks of being away; I am home!
My aunt fell and got hurt and I went out to Washington State to help out a little. Everything about their house is the complete opposite of mine. It is Very quiet! Mine is Very noise! Theirs is very clean, mine is wonderfully cluttered! There are crayons, color books, pencils, paper, and juice boxes; need I say more? I play music all the time, and I revel in children’s laughter and noises, they revel in peace and quiet. Two different worlds, yet home to both sets of people.
It is amazing what a different perspective you have about your home after you have been gone. You ask yourself, did I leave it like this or has “I didn’t do it,” been running rampant while I have been away? Is it because I have experienced order and everything having its own place, that has mine looking so jumbled? Is it time to purge? Do I really need all this stuff? If I throw this out will the memories go with it? Each one of us have to answer that question in our own time about our own space.
The most important question is what is your house built upon? What is your foundation? But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15c The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. Psalms 18:2. It doesn’t matter if your house is clean, or messy, elegant or basic, quiet or noisy, what is its foundation? What do you stand upon, what do others see when they look at you and your (beliefs) house? I am proud to say, though my house is noisy, cluttered, full of people, it is also full of the love of God and built on the Word of God. Each one of us have to look at our own foundation and see if our homes will stand the test of time.
As parents we need to give our children a firm foundation in the faith. What they build their lives on is directly related to the building blocks we make readily available to them. Don’t let your children be swept away by shifting sand!
We as authors have the opportunity to bring home the ravages of the recent disasters of Harvey, Emma and other devastation. Help people understand what those people went through watching their homes float away and what they are still going through. At the same time, don’t let our own lives be swept away by the evil of this world, but cling to a firm foundation!
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places:
Isaiah 32:18
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 24:3-4
The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Proverbs 3:33
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Proverbs 14:1
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew 7:24-27
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
Isaiah 32:18-20