Why does there have to be a title?
Well, I was just blog browsing and decided I wanted to blog.
Seems as if things are coming along in this old house. I have been buying things here and there and still need to buy some more but I have enough projects to keep me busy from now til the end of the year - HA! I was over on Mike and Amber Bishops blog and discovered that they are in the same boat as us - new house and doubts and such. AAAh! now I remember what I was really going to blog about.
The Bishops were talking about intentional community and how Mike kind of felt bad about not being able to have a house like V.C. Made me think that there are a lot of us out there wanting a lot of the same things. A great place to have people stay and live and learn and love together. Seems like the major thing obstructing the goal is MONEY. I just think of all the places in the world where there literally is no money. They have dirt floors and their children are starving to death. It also makes me wonder if we have the wrong idea about it. Maybe it isn't all about the big piece of land with little houses all over for retreatants, or a big house with lots of rooms for lots of people. Maybe it is just the regular house and being put into some form of inconvenience to help someone out. Maybe it is taking a day off to help someone else clean their house cause they work all the time, or just handing the guy on the side of the street with the sign a little money, or buying someone's dinner just cause, and all manner of little things. I think our society has made us unable to see what we can really do, accomplish, and have with little or no money.
Now, I still want a bigger house, I still want nice things(mostly just a clean house), and I want my kids to grow up to be good God loving people who are kind and generous to others, maybe even to a fault. I am not saying that having things is bad or evil, just that maybe we should rethink the intentional community thing a little.
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