Home Sweet Home

In North Carolina where I grew up, it is not unusual to see a beautiful new farmhouse, complete with wrap around porch and a brand new paint job that is within eyesight of an old barn or farm house that is rusted, crumbled, and overgrown with shrubs and trees.  It is a little less usual, but all the same, you can find these old, rusted barns full to the brim with junk: yesterday's treasures, spare parts, and an occasional tractor.  Even less usual... maybe even very rare, is an old farmhouse from years gone by, beautifully restored and serving a new owner as a their home sweet home.

            Just like these scenes I've painted in your mind, it is easy to see differences in homes and marriages across our land.  Brand new marriages, where one or both of the parties are divorced are just like that beautiful new farmhouse, new and unstained. Their new marriage is within eyesight of one that has crumbled and grown over with neglect.  The old barn full of useful and non-useful things is just like a marriage that has been neglected but never left.  That older couple you see with few things in common, many sources of contention, but memories of good times, and somewhat of a partnership.  And, just as rare as a restored farmhouse is in the countryside, there are marriages that have been beautifully maintained, or even restored to the place that they are things to truly stop and admire.

          The purpose of this blog is not merely for my enjoyment in writing, nor simply for your pleasure in reading. It is to encourage each of us to turn our hearts toward our husbands once again and learn how precious they truly are.

            My prayer for you, is that one of the points illustrated in one post or another will help YOU and YOUR marriage become more wonderful.  If you leave this blog with the same marriage, I have failed.  But if one thing, and one thing alone, has changed for the better, I have succeeded.  May God bless you and your home, and may your home become truly “Sweet”.