Home Comfort

Once Marsha and I moved out on our own I realized that Marsha had the ability to make a house into a home. Our first home was a rented apartment after we had not really lived alone for our first year of marriage. We moved into a duplex apartment in Plainville Massachusetts and she immediately made the space feel like a home. Part of it was the way she organized the space, but more of it was the way she helped life flow smoothly and comfortably. Life happened and for the most part it was without tension and stress. Things that needed to happen happened and life proceeded on schedule on pace. We moved to our first house after a couple of years and we had to fill some rooms with used junk, but Marsha made it work. The house was dirty and sagging in the middle with very unlevel floors, but we cleaned and worked at making it a home. Marsha used to laugh that our son Dana learned to walk side hill. We lived in Norton, Wrentham, Whitman and Taunton the same was true. From cottage to mansion it didn't matter, things were done to make it home and to make it comfortable. Here in Myrtle Beach I live the way Marsha set things up to work. She taught me how a home functions and it still works even without her to watch me. I use her life model at every turn and my home is still comfortable.

I think that is what God wants to do for us. Life works and has an inner comfort when I am following God's plan. He set the pattern for us to follow and knows that when we learn his model life works. Peace that passes understanding, joy that can't be taken away. and the assurance of God's presence at all times, what more can we ask for. If home is where the heart is my home is with the Lord.