Home.
It is a place made sacred by memories, familiarity, love, and dreams.
It is both place and people, a space for work and rest, refuge and reception, the hidden life and hospitality.
A real home is worn but cared for, tidy but often messy, loud at times, and still at others.
You can manufacture a house, but a home must be grown slowly, faithfully, gratefully, through the sunny days of laughter, and the rainy days of tears.
A happy, healthy home requires presence, both yours and the presence of Jesus. To make a home you must live at home.
It is the place of the ordinary, the unimpressive, the unseen. The ministry of home is one of humility, testing the heart when no-one is looking, except the One who sees all.
Let us say yes to making homes. To homemaking, homesteading, home business, homeschooling, and home churching.
The home is the garden where the gospel is grown, and its seeds are blown by the Spirit into the dying world to bring life.
