- To have neighbors
- So you can pray for neighbors
- So you can have neighbors into your home to play a game, enjoy a snack, or a meal
- So you can have people into your house from your church family
- To have a place for the cat to leave his fur
- To have a place a dog can learn silly tricks
- To get to know the vet when the dog eats the Hot Wheels collection
- To pray for the vet
- To start a from-home job to pay the vet
- To sleep in
- To eat in
- To offer up to God to be used for His glory
- To paint
- To learn how to wash windows without leaving streaks
- To teach your children how to wash windows
- To show your husband the streaks he left washing the windows
- To hold a small library of great books you can read to your children or grandchildren
- To read biographies of saints who’ve gone before us
- To teach your children how to dust and vacuum and clean a bathroom
- To teach your children how to balance a spoon on their finger, but not a butcher knife
- To teach your children how to do laundry and make their own bed and take out the trash
- To teach your husband…. Never mind
- To learn things about roof shingles and replacement windows and that everything man builds wears out and has limitations, even home owners’ insurance
- To have a one-on-one Bible study with a friend
- To keep the makers of weed killer, toilet bowl cleaner, and Hoover vacuums in business
- To come home from work to
- To read your Bible and meditate and memorize God’s precious promises
- To sing or hum hymns in as you rock a child to sleep
- To flirt with your spouse in (this calls for drapes. Closed.)
- To laugh in
- To weep in
- To sternly talk to the cat about cat-nip (if you won’t, who will?)
- To race the cat around on its back on the carpet making motorboat sounds (it’s you who should be making the motorboat sounds, not the cat. If the cat is making motorboat sounds please reference #7,8,9)
- To store band-aids for scratches from the cat
- To teach your children or the neighbor kids how to bake chocolate-chip cookies from scratch
- To have a table at which you can help your children learn how to do fractions, or they help you learn how to do fractions
- To hang a picture on the wall, 36 times until it’s just right
- To learn how much spackle it takes to patch 35 nail holes
- To run around with buckets of water and squirt guns when it’s 105 outside
- To host missionaries in
- To have a rummage sale when the clutter gets higher than the eaves – but not before
- To grow old in
- To tell stories to your children about the ‘olden days’ and the house you grew up in
- To accept joyfully it being taken away from you should that happen (Hebrews 10:32-35)
- To be grateful for it but see it for what it is in light of eternity (Hebrews 11:10-16)
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