Our Dream Home
When my husband, Ken, and I first married we were traveling with a singing ministry and we stayed in a different place almost every night. We called a big old coach bus our home, but as we traveled, we started dreaming of what our dream home would look like. I made notes and collected pictures and one day I came across a magazine that had home designs drawn out...and there it was! Exactly what we wanted! I tore out that page, folded it up, and carried it around in my planner for years! It was so worn from all the times I would take it out and study it again and dream of the day that we would build it and move in.
When we were finally able to buy land, we met with the architect. I pulled out that beautiful design that I had spent years building in my mind and gently handed it to the designer. He spent some time reviewing it and came back with a conversation I had never expected to have. All of the special nuances, cut-outs and special angles that gave our dream home such unique beauty made the cost of our home way out of our budget. He came to us with an alternate design. A simplified layout that could accommodate some of the things we most loved about our original plan. Those were hard choices to make. I had lived in that beloved dream home, in my mind, for so many years! In the end, we loved that home. We raised our babies there and had as many years in it as we had dreaming about it.
Here's the thing: our real forever home is not here! And however we are dreaming it will be some day -- we will not ever have to choose to downsize or trim space or cut corners. It will be beyond our biggest dreams or wildest imaginations! I know it because Jesus is the One preparing it for us! In John 14: 1-3 (CEV), "Jesus said to His disciples, 'Don't be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in Me. There are many rooms in My Father's house. I wouldn't tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you. After I have done this, I will come back and take you with Me. Then we will be together.'" I can't imagine what it will be like. I know this - it won't even matter - because Jesus IS home!
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