OCTOBER 27- NOVEMBER 2: “A House unto My Name”
Come Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants 124
How blessed to know where home is. For me, home has come in several chapters: home of my childhood, home of my teens, years of evermoving home with my husband and young family, and the homes we’ve built together and dwelt in for three decades. Some homes were brief in time lived there, yet impactful in those we came to know and continue to claim as some of our closest friends.
I know a little bit about searching for the place that feels like it’s mine. Perhaps you do too.
You know this song, a celebration of knowing home.
Home – Phillip Phillips
Several years ago I had the chance to walk through my childhood home. It had been remodeled and added upon, yet there were still those places so familiar in my memory, although they had become smaller since I was eight. This house lingers along with the homes of my grandparents in memories both dim and vivid, that still ignite a sense of belonging within. Even as I visit the sites – that no longer belong within the family and have overgone changes and remodels – I still feel myself there.
I’m also familiar with the feeling that, as much as home feels like home, there are changes needed. When I was young I often would change the furniture around in my room. In this I found new patterns and perspective. Painting walls or changing a bedspread refreshes what may have become stagnant.
I believe a healthy home allows for change and growth, not to be stifled and stuck.
Build a House – Megan Tibbits
Our home is a place where all are welcome. When you are invited in, you have refrigerator privileges – in other words, you are family. That is a pattern we follow as we understand God’s welcoming. None are turned away, but have a home in His embrace. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” John 3:17 Meaning: He’s not pointing at all the things we do wrong so He can keep us from Heaven, He’s helping us find our way into Heaven, for there is a home there for us, if we will have it.
Let Us Build a House – Collegiate Church of St Mary
We seek places of holiness. Throughout the world people create Sacred Spaces, a small shrine, a monument, a house that invites holiness. We follow pilgrimages to a spot that is made holy by what has occurred there.
God, too, seeks for a home – a house where He can dwell. A house where He can pass on His holiest gifts and powers to his children ready to receive it. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints currently has 382 temples around the world, the goal to bring the temples to the people. As construction or renovations are completed for these buildings they are open for a time to the public. Take the time to walk through a temple and discover what they might mean to you.
If you are prepared to go and be a part of sacred ordinances there, plan to go again soon. Then perhaps a little more often. For the Temple is a Holy Place, a house of the Lord.
Strength Beyond My Own – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Piter Lopez
Within your house, create space where the divine can dwell with you. Search for holy places, and visit as often as you can, to reconnect to the divine.
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