Burning Question:
What’s a basic skill that still shocks you when adults don’t know how to do it?
Morning Devotional:
A friend of mine told me yesterday that she and her husband are looking to move. This excited me to no end because as I told her, this gives me the best excuse to be online looking at house listings! I took a couple of architecture classes in school, and there are days when I would dream of what I might do with a home, given the time, resources and an empty palette in which to work.
My dream house has been a dream for most of my life. I’ve considered how many bedrooms and bathrooms it would have, what kind of pool it would have in the back – you know, all of those kinds of things. It would never compare to the home I know I will be living in someday. That’s the home I will have with my heavenly Father.
It’s easy to get caught up in the details of a house, isn’t it? But all those plans are for something that will eventually fade or need repairs.
The home I’m really waiting for is being prepared by the master architect Himself. When Jesus was comforting his friends, He gave them this incredible promise. He said:
“My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” (John 14:2-3)
I just love that. It’s not a house I have to design, earn, or build. It’s a place prepared for me.
And the best part isn’t the architecture or the “curb appeal”; it’s the fact that He’s preparing it so that we can be where He is. My earthly dream house is all about comfort, but my heavenly home is all about relationship. That’s a “move” I can really look forward to.
– Beth
Bible Quiz:
Question: What book pictures the elders of Daughter Zion sitting silently on the ground and wearing sackcloth?
Answer: Lamentations (Lamentations 2:10)
Storytime: Potato Rolls!