Priceless Treasures to Make Your House a Home

What makes a home…a home?

Within the first eight years of my life, I moved multiple times.

I went from living with both my parents, to living with my mom, then living with my mom and grandparents in a new state, and living with a new stepfather and a new last name.

No matter where I called home, something always felt missing. Like an emptiness went along inside heavy boxes and heavy hearts.

As a kid, I never knew how to define home. Then I watched The Wizard of Oz and heard Dorothy’s famous line, “There’s no place like home.”

The Security of Home

It’s also said, Home is where your heart is.

I learned it’s more than brick and mortar with a roof over your head and a bed to sleep in. Instead, it’s where you go to escape the uncertainty of the world. And where you find security and certainty.

But what if your home is uncertain and lacks the attention you need? Your body might be sheltered and protected from outside harm, while your heart isn’t. Exposed hearts are vulnerable to inside harm.

So when I married and started a family, I was determined to make every dwelling place a place filled with the most important things in life. Not a perfect place, but a place where our hearts are fully alive.

Since we were in full-time ministry for over thirty years, we lived in many different dwellings and towns.

But you can have a house filled with beautiful and expensive treasures but be missing what your family needs most.

“By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” Proverbs 24:3-4 (NIV)

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