This is a story of loss (house fire) but also a story of being found (free). In this day and age, maybe in any day and age, there is a desire to keep up with the Jones’s or even surpass the Jones’s in material wealth and possessions.
Then
there comes a time of putting material things into perspective and examining
just what is important in life and what is not. What remains after you’ve been
able to let go and give it up? When your possessions don’t own or possess you
anymore and you are free? It is right to hold the memories in your heart and
the joy you had living those memories.
And
what remains is looking to your new normal instead of behind at the loss. To find yourself in a new chapter
of life! Now your focus can be inward instead of outward. On the spiritual instead of
the material. Now you can be found
and fall into God’s waiting, loving arms.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the
LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
BEFORE and AFTER photos
of my sister, Paula's, home in Napa, CA, October 9, 2017
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