"Imagine that you are opening your front door and walking inside your home.
What do you see, and how do you feel?
Is it a place of love, peace, and refuge from the world, as is the temple?
Is it clean and orderly?
As you walk through the rooms of your home, do you see uplifting images which include appropriate pictures of the temple and the Savior?
Is your bedroom or sleeping area a place for personal prayer? Is your gathering area or kitchen a place where food is prepared and enjoyed together, allowing uplifting conversation and family time?
Are scriptures found in a room where the family can study, pray, and learn together? Can you find your personal gospel study space?
Does the music you hear or the entertainment you see, online or otherwise, offend the Spirit?
Is the conversation uplifting and without contention?
That concludes our tour. Perhaps you, as I, found a few spots that need some “home improvement”—hopefully not an “extreme home makeover.”
Whether our living space is large or small, humble or extravagant, there is a place for each of these gospel priorities in each of our homes."
Craig and I have purposely strived to make our home a holy place. We still have 'home improvements' but
we won't give up!
Along with the theme of this post I announce that Craig and I are smiling BIG these days because as of August 15th our mortgage is PAID IN FULL!!!!
6 comments:
Thank you for this sweet instruction. It's given me a new and exciting way to look at my home and several ideas for my 'home improvements'. And, speaking from experience, your home IS a holy place.
Thank you, Jan. We are hoping that you will be well enough to come visit us next month. Get better!
Great advice!! and mostly CONGRATULATIONS! I look so forward to that day. I always remember President Hinkley talking about how people had told President Faust there was no need to pay off his home early but he did anyway and was grinning from ear to ear...
Someday! For now, grin large for me too!
~Rebecca Davis
Great pictures mom. And Wowie kazowie- can't believe you are paying off the house. I can't even imagine that.
What a wonderful post. I love the Redlands temple too. I feel very blessed that we are able to work there each week. Temple day is our favorite day of the week.
Our home also needs home improvement but like you...we are working on it.
Congrats on getting your home paid off...isn't that a great feeling!!
Have a great week.(((hugs)))Lura
I think having your home paid off is the best feeling in the world. Congratulations!
I love the temple too. My 4 1/2 years of serving as an ordinance worker were some of my most cherished years but I'm enjoying being a patron again. It's so wonderful to have a temple only 8 minutes away. I think I especially appreciate that after living in Southern California and having to drive 2 hours to the temple. What a blessing!
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