HOME
What is home, and why is it so hard to leave? Sitting at the airport there are hundreds leaving home, off to college, doing business, taking vacation, and going off to war, the other half are coming home.
So what is home exactly? Is it a house with four walls, is it a warm fireplace with a home cooked meal on the table, is it where your family is at?
Yes, I think that home is a little bit of each:
Home - Security, a roof over your head and parents who support you financially
Home - Warmth, homemade meals, a place to lay your head, and a family who loves and
supports you
supports you
Home - History, the treasure chest that holds all of your childhood memories; the envelope of
the first two decades of your life.
Can you identify? Do you know what I'm talking about?
I bet either this makes your heart ache with desire to be home again, or sounds completely foreign to you. No matter what kind of 'home' a person has experienced, I think that there is a longing in every heart for a home.
I believe that the Almighty God of the universe created the home as a necessary greenhouse for the human heart to grow properly and healthily in relationship with Him. It is proven that a child's temperament and outlook on life is formed in the first 5 years of his/ her life. For a person to have a healthy view of themselves and know how to form whole relationships with others he/ she needs to receive nurture from the mother and protection from the father. In this way the man and women are each a reflection of God to young, formable souls.
God desires to draw all men to himself - to Love them well - and complete His good plan for the world.
Men and Women - we must play our proper part as mothers and fathers.
If you did not have a home for your heart to grow - know that God is good and loving and He is after you every day of your life that you may know Him.
Trust Him.
My Personal Experience
The Lord spoke to me when I was 18, I was on a short mission trip in Baja , Mexico and about ready to leave for Texas for a 1 year internship away from my home in Ohio
I have been in Texas
It is one of the greatest desires of my heart to create home wherever I go and to love people well. I believe that being a wife and mother is one of my highest callings, and I desire for my home to be a place for those to come who don't have one.
Some of my favorite Things about home (figuratively and literally):
It is where:
- I am known - understood
- I am believed in - the best is seen in you and encouraged
- There is help - when you are struggling, loving hands guide you back
- There are couches to sit on and blankets to cozy up in
- You can sit down for a cup of tea with your mom or invite a lady over to share it with you and share your heart
- Meals are made and put on the table
- Grandma lives
- There is food in the pantry that you have full access to
- I have my own room
- I can sit on the front porch in the morning
- I don't have to pretend
- I can cry
Merry Christmas!
I hope that you enjoy home this Christmas! Most of all know that God is a home for your heart!
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth give way,"
Psalm 46:1,2
"The Lord roars from Zion , and utters his voice from Jerusalem Israel
Joel 3:16
"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
Psalm 91:1,2
What are your favorite things about home?
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