“Home” means many different things to different people. For some, it is a place of safety. For others, is is a place of pain and trauma. For some, it is a reliable place to turn, and for others it is a place that exists in longing, unattainable in the present.
What does “home” mean to you? How has this meaning influenced your spiritual path?
Sometimes, something originally intended for one use finds purpose and possibility as something else.
How can you repurpose something today?
Smooth, rough, soft, prickly. The delicate fuzz of a ripe peach, the rough surface of a concrete sidewalk, the comforting softness of your favorite t-shirt. What are the textures you feel today?
Notice texture throughout your day today.
“I want to be like that, and I am, I guess. In my job as a minister, the bricks are stories. I hear stories of family and work, stories of loss and reconciliation, stories of rejection and disaster, illness and healing, birthing and dying. I tell stories every Sunday and in between, teaching, challenging, confessing, inviting people to learn and laugh and think.
Brick by brick, story by story, we build a church, seeing the patterns, the symmetry, the plain joy of setting one story on the other, sustained by the strong and beautiful structures they make. We will never be finished.”
– Rev. Meg Barnhouse
What are the patterns you notice in the stories of your life today?
There is a skyscraper in San Francisco that is tilting. It is thought that the tilt is a result of the desire for the builders to save money by setting the building’s foundation pilings in dense sand instead of putting them all the way down to the bedrock. New foundation pilings will need to be placed underneath this massive structure to keep it from falling over.
How do you need to be shored up today? How can your foundation be strengthened to help you face another day?
