Do we value the task of creating a safe, warm place as much as we should? I often don't. It is hard to pulled both to the garden and to the front lines, especially in today's world.
Is that why we love Andy Griffith and Little House on the Prairie and watching Pride and Prejudice, because we instinctively are drawn to the idea of home? Why we long to get away to beautiful places of good food and soft music and warm greetings?
This isn't about working or not working. This is more about mindset, about how we spend our time, about getting in touch with a part of us that years of outside pressures might have made us forget that we have, and made us forget what an amazing work creating a safe, warm place really is.
Could it be that this is our stand? That this is our fight against evil and darkness--to create literal islands of light and joy and peace in each city or country block, to be ambassadors of that light and love when we travel to school and store and doctor's office and restaurant?
Are we talking this duty seriously? Do we understand the necessity of it? Are we willing to provide this for others?
The world is corrupted with the spirits of evil and greed and selfishness. Could it be that our homes are our fortress against such, that we must be diligent to keep the walls of it strong and the insides of it peaceful and light?
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