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.”
