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Another
special group of volunteers came to our house from Ohio this past week. Every
person who comes leaves a treasure of love in our hearts as bit by bit our home
is being made a home again. We love meeting people we may have never met if not
for the storm’s damage. We were also given these awesome necklaces, handmade
from deer antlers. One for each of us…with a meaningful scripture verse attached.
My verse was Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
This
same week, Jordan, our daughter, received a letter from one volunteer
explaining the important structural work he had to do in her room. While
searching for the cause of an electrical problem upstairs, they discovered
sagging cripple studs; this would mean nothing to me if he didn’t explain the
problem—it couldn’t support the second floor. Jordan’s room had been a danger
zone.
She
wouldn’t be able to see what was there once the wallboard covered it up, but he
wanted her to feel secure knowing there was now a strong foundation. He also
explained the spiritual application to make sure Jesus was her foundation; he encouraged
her to ask Him into her heart. He included a before and after photo of her
closet’s foundation with her Uncle Greg who helped too.
Matthew
7:24-27 explains our need for a firm foundation: “Therefore everyone who hears
these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built
his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew
and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation
on the rock…”
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To
read more about where this started, you can read a previous post: “Five Kids
and a Flood.”
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