This is my view from the kitchen window. My slice of heaven. |
Original hitching post in front of our house. I know nothing about plants and flowers, but I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the surprises that popped up this spring and summer. |
The view from my nook in the entryway. My husband made those frames for the pictures he brought back from Uganda several years ago. |
My Facebook feed runs of people buying homes, selling their first home to upgrade, simplifying to something more convenient, and it all reminds me
this is my temporary home.
When I'm itching for something more predictable (than this awkward season of support raising to go into full-time ministry) I ask my husband "can we just live here forever?" I love the blessing our home has been and the layout of it makes it so convenient to host people for a meal or play date. Both sets of our parents still live in the homes we were born into. Our memories were made there. And while I wouldn't consider myself one for sentiment, I wonder what it will be like for our kids one day. If our hearts are willing to GO where the Lord says to GO and minister to those who need to hear about Jesus and see us LIVE it out, that may mean moving far away, or to another community just down the way in order to have deep, intentional community with our neighbors.
Here we are, in a beautiful rural setting, and we consider ourselves very blessed. So, we cling to this season because we don't know when the Lord says MOVE, and we will be intentional with our neighbors, sharing our life, our Jesus and our Hope, and being real with them during the joy and the sorrows of all this life brings. While it isn't scripture- I love the saying, "We are blessed to be a blessing."
We don't have any plans of moving in the future, but we do not consider this our "forever home". Our hope for a "forever home" is only found in the hope we have in our Eternal home- Heaven. All of earth is temporary, we are fixed on what is eternal- relationships and our soul redeeming relationship with Jesus Christ. This "stuff" doesn't matter. From the cars we drive, vacations we won't ever take and fashions we can't keep up with, our treasure is found in the investment of sharing Jesus Christ so that others might know Him, experiencing the comfort of His love from NOW until eternity.
We don't have any plans of moving in the future, but we do not consider this our "forever home". Our hope for a "forever home" is only found in the hope we have in our Eternal home- Heaven. All of earth is temporary, we are fixed on what is eternal- relationships and our soul redeeming relationship with Jesus Christ. This "stuff" doesn't matter. From the cars we drive, vacations we won't ever take and fashions we can't keep up with, our treasure is found in the investment of sharing Jesus Christ so that others might know Him, experiencing the comfort of His love from NOW until eternity.