I've moved around quite a bit over the past 2 years… I've lived with about 15 different people. In each of the last 4 places I've lived I've had a roommate who is especially gifted in the area of domesticity (or making a house a home and keeping it pretty). Now, on my own i would say that making a house a home means that people have to live in it. I know this is partly true, but i've come to learn that the way you keep your house has something to do with it too.
i'm watching an old old couple right now in Barnes and Noble, they are in their 80's at least. The wife just picked a better homes magazine and flipped cautiously through the pages like they were made of tissue paper, her husband pinched down the two pages that kept wanting to impede on what she was reading. she pulls out her reading glasses to read and after a second, decides they should just buy it. she stays, standing guard with her purse and piece of cheesecake while her husband takes the better homes magazine to be purchased. I'm guessing it would have taken twice as long for both of them to make the walk.
I'm getting married in 64 days and 5 hours. I'm about to step into the position of Mrs. Domesticity. To many women this is a dream come true…what they've always waited for! A house to settle down in and make pretty. For me it's precisely what I never expected. (Isn't that how God works? (rhetorical)). I expected to move into a hut in africa…or…at best, a temporary apartment in the U.S.
But no, God is blessing me with an amazing husband and an actual house…one with a secure roof and a backyard. Not just any backyard at that. This backyard has a fountain! a fountain!!! Oh, and I'm not finished, it has not one, but TWO sheds. One for Joe to call his man cave and one for me to call my art studio (don't tell Joe but I might be more excited about that than the actual house).
You know how the Bible says to honor the Lord, to be righteous, to walk out your faith and be concerned with the things of God and He will give you the desires of your heart…He will take care of the rest if you will just do the task he's placed in front of you and work on the heart he's placed inside of you?
Well, This season, this man, this house, this financial security is God keeping his promises to me. I am in the middle of God going above and beyond what I could have ever wished for or imagined.
So hold on. Hold on if you've been waiting for your dreams to come true. They truly will and they honestly might not look a thing like what you expected. In your deepest darkest times, open your ears to His whispered promises. Listen closely and hold them with your hand wide open.
