This past weekend we spent a few days with Michael and Neva, at their home in Edgemore South Carolina. We had a blast. They sold their new home and purchased a fixer upper just a few miles away.
This home they're living in is coming along with lots of their personal touches. It tickles me at all the pride and self they're putting into this "project" together. Neva is cleaning up and fixing old flower beds in the yard. I think she's the best drywall mudder I've ever met!
Mike is busy with all kinds of carpentry, plumbing and is still repairing all three of their vehicles. He's installed a shower, pipes and pretty cherry bathroom cabinet with a travertine top. He's a whiz kid at inside and exterior doors and crown molding.
Michael really loves his yard! He couldn't wait to start a "Friday night bomb fire."We all laughed and joked around the fire just like we did when he was so young. It amazes me how much your children take with them after they leave the "nest." Values, love and so many good things accompany them in their "new lives"in their own nests.
I'm so proud of the home they've made, not the "things," but the qualities of life they choose to carry with them. Maybe, Mark and I didn't mess our kids up too bad, after all. But the best thing both Michael, Heidi and Neva took with them was the importance of keeping Jesus in the center of home! That fact alone is worth volumes of knowledge, love and understanding. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
"Unless the Lord builds the house, it's builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat-for he grants sleep to those he loves.
Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him.
Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are son's born in one's youth.
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with there enemies in the gate.
Psalm 127 (NIV)
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