Beautiful Old Homes

Our little city is peppered with beautiful old homes.   Victorians and other styles reek with elegance.  Many of them are impeccably maintained with elaborate paint and manicured lawns while others show their years.   They are like people.  We are incredible mansions which God’s spirit wants to inhabit.  Paul calls us temples.  Just like old homes some are well cared for and others have been neglected.  Some are well groomed and exercised and others have spent way too many hours on a couch with a remote control in hand.

As spring comes and dirty snow piles slowly vanish winter’s broken branches and other refuse litter lawns.  Any day now we will have a seventy degree weekend day and snow shovels will be replaced with rakes, edgers and mowers.  Daffodils and crocuses will decorate walkways.  It is a grand time of the year.

As for us we can begin to undo the ravages of the blizzards that gave us a legitimate excuse for not going for that all important daily walk.  After all it really wasn’t safe with the snow narrowed streets and icy footing.  However, those excuses as good as they were have melted away.  God’s temple, you and I, need to vacuum the floor, wash the windows and dust out the cobwebs.  We need to move.

For those of you who live in warm comfortable climates, I know you can totally ignore this because I know you have not allowed yourself to go to pot and you have impeccably cared for yourselves.

The definition of sin is doing anything that is harmful to others or to self.  We definitely don’t want to sin against ourselves let alone the others we live with.

Written by Roger Bothwell on March 29, 2013

Spring of Life, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574

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