Things are definitely looking up here at PCL!!!!
No sooner do I write this, I feel ashamed! I think of Katherine's years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar with no electricity or plumbing. I think of how many people live every day without so many of the luxuries we spoiled people take for granted, and not just in other countries, but here in the United States, in our own towns.....
I realize that privilege skews our perspective and topics like a house remodel are trivia. So let me state here and now that although I will continue to journal this fixer-upper project, it is all in anticipation of getting down to the important stuff of life - charity, service, loving your neighbor.
I have a friend back in Ruston who has an extra house on her property. Although it is as cute as pie, it is what she does with it that really matters. She uses it for others- visiting pastors and displaced families just to name a couple.
I want our home to be available for whatever God may send our way in the future, so perhaps I should quit saying we are remodeling and say that we are preparing!!
Love ya'll,
Shelli
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. ~Norman Lear
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I made you." ~Author Unknown
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