Not a House but a Home...

Lately I have been feeling like a house of cards.  If I am balanced ever so carefully, I can be beautifully intricate, rise to amazing heights and simply amaze.  But that balance is so easily upset one breeze, however faint or shake of the table and I fall, hard, fast and into a messy heap(and most of the time my heap includes tears).  I feel flat, defeated, inadequate and so unorganized.  Like a mess of cards scattered every which way some facing up, others facing down, not good for anything except to sort through, clean up and possibly start (building or playing with) again.  Normally I find that one of many things have happened in order for my house to fall.  My foundation is not where it should be, or maybe I am building for the wrong reasons or maybe I am not supposed to be building at all and instead God has something for me in the clean up, the sorting through or the slow process of starting again. 

A few weeks ago Pastor Britta asked the children during the children's message what a church is?  The response was that is was a building to keep us safe.  Did you catch that?  A building. Sometimes I find that I am to concerned about my "House" and I neglect, ignore or don't even bother with my HOME.  My home is in Christ, with the Lord and my Savior.  When my focus is on other things, worldly things or even (gasp!) church ministry things, if my foundation is not in God and I am not based in the word, I am not home.  When I do not start where I should I become so unstable and the enemy can easily knock me down.

Harbert Community Church is in a time of transition.  Now more than ever we need to work on our home.  When we as a church family are hurting we need to take special care for each other.  A hymn came to my mind when that children's sermon took place and later during another sermon and discussion.  The hymn is "We Are theChurch" by Richard Avery and Donald Marsh.  I encourage you to follow the link and read or sing through the song. I encourage you (and me!) to focus on our HOME and not worry so much about the house.  Houses will eventually be destroyed, but our Home in Christ is Forever!

- written by Jodie Wilson

Isaiah 32:18-20 My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely, how blessed you will be...

So will you please join us as we try to continue building not a house, but a Home at Harbert Community Church.  Reach out to someone new, or that you don't know very well, step out of your comfort zone and offer to volunteer, but most importantly welcome everyone into our HOME.

Don't forget to check out what is going on this fall at HCC!

Women's Morning Bible Study        HCC Women's Luncheon
Holiday Bazaar