Home isn't anything unless you share it. If we did, then it wouldn't be home. Rather it would be a hideaway, cave, hermit dwelling....whatever it is you want to call it. But it's not home. Home is a place you share with others.....
This doesn't mean you "live" with people....for certainly single people can have just as safe, comfortable and inviting home as any couple or family. Home is where you invite people to be embraced by your safe place, where you lay your head, say your nightly prayers....eat....you know. Everything you do every day. It's where YOU live. Sharing it with others brings them closer to who you are, and what you're about.
I was reminded today that it has been a long, long time since someone just came to our home to visit....and share a moment of their lives surrounded by our things. Right now we don't have a single picture hung on the walls, but we have furniture, cold beverages, a tv....things that sort of make it a home. But the most important this is that they came.....it had been so long since someone came to visit just because.....because we invited them and not because they were expecting something or looking for a free place to lay their head for a vacation.
We had friends over. We shared our home....our safe place with friends, and it felt so great. Makes me want to spread the joy.
We are looking forward into the future....we're going to have a housewarming party aka football party in November. I love entertaining....it's so much work but I love having people come and cooking for them....fussing over them.....making them feel "at home." It's been so long.
I hate to jinx this wonderfulness.....the joy I feel and safety I feel at "being home" by saying....it's about time the tides turned to our favor, and we have good things happen rather than stressful and upheavel. It's refreshing....and oh so humbling.
I am so grateful that I have put my faith in God and allowed so many unproductive things go. Being bogged down in the mire of the horrible experiences we suffered in Las Vegas.....has not been easy, but it's happening each and every day.
Come, sit a while. You're welcome and we love you.
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