miracles from heaven
Every time I see a yellow butterfly I think about my Grammy Lucy. I don’t believe in reincarnation but I do think God sends us little signs, little reminders that He has not forgotten us. I’ve read that some people call them ‘God winks’. The inspiration behind starting this blog, behind starting the business Little Joys of Home, the idea to reignite a love in the heart of others for “HOME” came from bigger story. See I had a home I loved. A house that I thought I would stay in forever. It was southern living house plan, it was a sweet story how we came to own the home, and I had poured my life into making it our “forever home”. Painting, cleaning, dreaming, making memories. Then one day my husband said he wanted to sell it. It was the biggest disagreement we had ever been in and still is to this day. I spent the next five years trying to get over it. I could buy you a coffee and talk you through the growth and advice I have on this side of it all, but my cousin called (who knew the whole story) and said you’ve got to watch the movie called Miracles from Heaven. Now, to fill you in a bit without spewing out all the details, we literally wandered around for a little over a year praying through a TON of things and exploring options of where to live then landed right back where we started, in the same town. We bought land and chose a house plan. (I had actually torn it out of a southern living in 2004 when we first married-its now 2018). We began to build a house and I swore I would not attach myself to this or any other house like I had the previous one (and the blue house with stairs). A house is just a house I told myself-its wood and sheetrock and decisions but home is where your heart is, your family is. We have been in this house for over two years now. It still doesn’t feel like home and I’m beginning to see why.
We were made for something that last forever. We were made for Heaven-its our home. I mean I knew this but like this truth is still sinking in. Every house we live in, every place we set our feet on earth will eventually go away. God will make a new heaven and a new earth.
If I live my life looking for a home to give me security and sense of well being and safety and a place to put my heart I will forever struggle. I can talk pain colors and room design and organization all day long, but it will not be there forever, our styles will change, kids will scrape the walls, and we willed to redesign. BUT my one everlasting home is with God. Its the place I feel the most safe and secure and loved and it is still being built. Its still being built. God is shaping me into his likeness and preparing place for me with him for eternity. The best thing I can do right now is prepare myself for that. Spending time with Him now is the only place I really feel at home. If you don’t have that security of knowing you will be with Him, lets talk.
This picture of the house above (in the movie Miracles from Heaven) is the exact house plan of our current home. I had no idea until I watch the movie and googled some images. I’m totally sentimental to fault (for sure!) so very day when I look up the driveway and see this house, I feel the same way I do when I see a butterfly. This house is a little gift-a reminder-that God has not forgotten me. God has given me a place for now, and the miracle is Him at work in me. So here is to our heavenly HOME. I hope to see you there one day.