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Friday, June 13, 2008

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This week has been a busy week. We’ve been out of the house for some part of each day. Busy doing needful things, necessary things…and yet my home reflects my absence. Too many tasks have been left undone.

With five children, keeping up with the upkeep requires my constant attention. When I’m not home my home reflects my absence and the work piles up.

So this morning I am reminded of the fact that to be a “keeper at home” (Titus 2:4-5) I need to be at home.

What about you? Are your needful and necessary tasks keeping you from your home?

What is the difference between the word home and house?

A home is not a home unless the lady is there making it a home. – Debi Pearl

Comments

• Friday, June 13, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Bird

Here's what Bono has said several times about growing up with just his dad (his mom died early on):

"You're in a house but not a home."

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• Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Barndi

I know exactly what you mean, Dani. One thing I am trying to do is have certain things done before I go out or at least schedule when they will get done before I go. If I can't fit in, I need to reassess whether or not I should be gone.

So often it boils down to good, better and best. I need to leave the "good" undone in order to do the best thing. Often that is keeping the house in shape.

I love Elizabeth Elliot's phrase, "The tyranny of the urgent." We so often forsake the important things because the urgent things demand to be done NOW.

Thank you for this reminder! :-)

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