Insulating our Foundation...

As I am writing this post, there are men here blowing new insulation into my attic. It is messy and noisy and a little inconvenient. But it is necessary. We live in an older house. It is a solid house. Built very well with the best materials. My husband always says that new houses just aren't built like this. The old way. The more time consuming way. The way that it used to be done. Our home was built to withstand time.

Isn't that the way we should build our lives and our families? To withstand time. To withstand the storms of life. To withstand the cold of winter and the heat of summer. Shouldn't we take the extra time and effort to build the solid foundation. To use the right materials. Shouldn't we take a maintenance walk around our lives every now and then to make sure we are taking care of the foundation. We might find that we need a little more insulation.

My oldest daughter has been going through pre-marital counseling with her fiancé. They are meeting with a husband and wife team that are pouring into them from every angle. There is an agenda and a purpose to what they are doing. And it is not a one time meeting. They are preparing the materials that Katie and Trey will use to build the foundation of their home and family. It is necessary to insure that their home will withstand time.

It is not always easy to live in an older home. I don't have the high ceilings or the large, open rooms that the new houses have. Our home requires maintenance and upkeep. Just like our lives. Too many homes are falling apart because we are neglecting the foundation. We aren't building from the ground up. We want the picture perfect house so we just keep painting the rooms and buying new stuff while the foundation is crumbling around us. 

All of my girls are at a season in their lives where they are needing a little more insulation to maintain their lives. We can't pour into their foundation when they are young and then expect it to last. Their lives and our own require maintenance. Sometimes we need to offer a little more insulation to certain areas of their lives that are lacking. We can insulate them with Truth. With blessing. With gratitude and with thanksgiving. We can also insulate them with boundaries and with discipline and with tough love.

As I insulate my own life with God's Word and with His Truths, it will spill over into my children's lives. I want my foundation to be strong. To withstand time. To offer a solid footing to my children and to their children. All of our foundations have a few cracks and some may even be in danger of crumbling, but God offers us a chance to pour some more insulation in. To do a maintenance check. To ensure that our own lives are full of the right building materials and then to offer to our children the same.

They finished blowing in the new insulation before I finished writing this post. It only took a few minutes. Take a few minutes today to do a walk through in your life. It might be a little messy and even a little inconvenient to add a little extra insulation where you need it. But it might also be necessary to insure that your foundation will withstand time. If you need a little help, I know a great Home Inspector that can offer some great Insulation. His services are free. And His insulation is eternal.

Abraham was confidently looking forward 

to a city with eternal foundations, 

a city designed and built by God. Hebrews 11:10