Prioritize Your Home

We stepped inside, set our water bottles on the dryer, suitcases on the rug.

Silence.
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The lamp glowed on the end table in the living room. Everything was in its place.

Daddy’s recliner next to that lamplit end table with the ever-present sports page on top.

Mama’s chair with the folded blanket and a few magazines on the footstool. Yet without them there, empty.​

Our kids ran in as they normally do, cheering and excited. It was our then 3-year-old who stopped dead in the silence. “Where are Poppy and Nanny?!” she cried, suddenly quiet, wide-eyed.

The space of a house. The set up. Arrangement. Lighting. Items. They matter in making a space feel like a home. They do matter. Yet it is the spiritual and emotional presence in that space that make it home.
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When coming home to my parent’s house, they greet us with excitement, welcome, love, orderliness, things have been prepared and thought about on our behalf.

The spiritual and emotional presence they provide speak volumes of words unuttered…

You are loved.

You have been missed.

You are welcome here.

You belong.

It is a place I want to be. I am wanted. Valued. Cared for. Loved.

This is HOME.

What is your home like? What kind of home did you grow up in?

What does home matter anyway?

And how do you create the kind of home you want? What does Jesus say about home?

These are some of the questions you explore in Sanctuary of Home.

Many topics make up the answers to these questions. Among them: relationships, mission, self-care, encouragement, routine, forgiveness, and play.
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I invite you to come, learn with me. Seek the Lord and inquire of Him as you create the home He made you for.

May you be loved and launched into all He has for you, through your own Sanctuary of Home.

What are three words that describe the kind of home you would like to have?

Please share your thoughts in the comments.
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​Let’s learn from each other.

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