Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham, kept her home and provided stability for her five children. She saw herself as laid back, “almost lazy” and yet she made it possible for her husband to evangelize the world. She provided an oasis of calm and peace when her husband came home.
Keeping a home is a worthy ministry. Organizing and decorating with things you love is a good thing. Our lives do not consist of the abundance of things we possess – but our “things” can be used in a way that comforts our families and makes ministry possible.
Our home has “laughter in the walls.” It also has tears of sorrow and frustration. But it is our home – the place where we do life. We can move from here to another building, but our “home” will not be diminished by it. We are now two people living in it, instead of six, but we have branched out into five homes with more yet to come. Twenty-three of us at this point – not all one home any more, but still nourished by coming back under our roof from time to time.
Eventually we will occupy that mansion prepared for us in Heaven and we will feel “at home” more than ever before. The important thing is that not one of us will be missing in that final homecoming celebration!
John 14:1-4 NKJV
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
