Home Improvement

This past Saturday morning my family and I all went to a new home improvement store near our home. Being Saturday and all, we ran into lots of friends, everyone with different projects planned. The boys each found a venus fly trap plant, and the thought of a insect eating plant was just amazingly wonderful to them. My husband wanted to go see the store and also pick up mulch for a few of our flower beds. We had a sucessful trip!

There is a church right across the street from the new super warehouse of home improvement items. The church's sign read "Come to the real home improvement place." Pretty powerful sign and placed perfectly as shoppers will see the sign as they stop at the light to turn in. It gave me pause to think a happy home is not happy because of a freshly applied coat of paint, or a newly renovated kitchen with shiny appliances or even a beautiful lawn with perfectly flowered and mulched landscaping. A happy home is happy, if it has love. And love comes from God.

As we "improve" our homes lets remind each other to keep first things first. First of all love God with all of our hearts, mind, soul and strength. Keeping that first- the rest will fall into place -our marriages, our relationships with our children, and our relationships with our neighbors.

Dear God,
May we truly keep You as the center of our lives exchanging worldly views for eternal ones. May we be filled with Your love and compassion as we minister to our families, our neighbors and the world. Bless the projects that we do in our homes may we be good stewards of our many gifts. In Jesus Name, Amen.

I John 4:7 "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Vs 11 "Dear friends, sine God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.