flip this house

Opening Prayer: Unless the Eternal builds the house, those who labor to raise it will have worked for nothing. Unless the Eternal stands watch over the city, those who guard it have wasted their time. God provides for His own. It is pointless to get up early, work hard, and go to bed late anxiously laboring for food to eat; for God provides for those He loves, even while they are sleeping. (Psalm 127:1-2, The Voice)

Scripture: Psalm 127:1-2

Journal: How is God stripping you or taking you down to the studs these days?  What good and beautiful thing do you think he is trying to do in this process?

Reflection:

     flip this house

unless the Lord
builds the house
~Psalm 127:1

sometimes

in order to build

a more beautiful house

the old one must be

taken down to the studs

the soul is no different

god wants to do something

good and beautiful in us

but a little deconstruction

might need to be done first

so when it seems 

we are being stripped to the bone

we can rest assured

it is not absence or spite

but thoughtful intention

a renewing
of his image within us

a restoration of glory

the hope of 

what is to come

Prayer

Closing Prayer: O God, Master Designer, Eternal Architect, Builder of all that is good and beautiful, do your work in me this day.  Make in me—and of me—a home that is well-suited for yourself.  Give me the confidence of knowing that whatever work you are doing in and through me, no matter how hard or uncomfortable, is producing a final result that is beyond my deepest hopes or wildest dreams.  You build this house, O God.  Amen.