http://lambofgodnj.org/blogs/big-al/suffering/on-home-improvement-projects-crucial-rooms/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:45:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://lambofgodnj.org/blogs/big-al/suffering/on-home-improvement-projects-crucial-rooms/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Katie Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:24:43 +0000 http://www.lambofgodnj.org/blogs/big-al/?p=38#comment-211 In a way home improvement projects are like growing in the Lord. We'd like to grow smoothly and easily from baby Christians to maturity, but like owning a house, it doesn't work that way. Festering problems crop up that we didn't even have a clue about. We think we know what needs to happen, and then we get surprised when related problems crop up. We think we've got something fixed, and then that sewer keeps backing up. And all the time we'd like it all to look nice on the outside so no one guesses at the mess inside. Still, with work and grace things do improve both in our lives and our homes. In a way home improvement projects are like growing in the Lord. We’d like to grow smoothly and easily from baby Christians to maturity, but like owning a house, it doesn’t work that way. Festering problems crop up that we didn’t even have a clue about. We think we know what needs to happen, and then we get surprised when related problems crop up. We think we’ve got something fixed, and then that sewer keeps backing up. And all the time we’d like it all to look nice on the outside so no one guesses at the mess inside. Still, with work and grace things do improve both in our lives and our homes.

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