Tuesday, August 17, 2021

TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD

Today, a friend said, “Do you have another book in you. Why don’t you write another book?”  This is the first thing that came to mind: “To Build or Not to Build” or “On the Way Home” could be a title.

 

Every woman who has had the privilege of waking to that momentous day, a wedding day, who was entering into that hope filled enterprise called “marriage” has begun on a path to a home. Now it is a question of whether she will undertake this task with her whole heart…and so build her best house, most powerful, warm and loving and efficient place.  It is the place every soldier “dreams” of returning to, every traveler yearns for, every homeless American longs for.  This is privilege. This is opportunity more far reaching than most anything else she will take on in her lifetime.

 

If a married woman builds her house, if she sets it up surely, figuratively, physically she will do her best work on earth.  “A wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.” Proverbs 14:1.

 

Every woman is gifted, some in many ways.  “House building” is more than a gift, it is a calling. The call is created in heaven…and it can be the catalyst for “heaven upon the earth.”