😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. We are only one inspection away from being able to claim our new house as our home. Can I get a WOOT WOOT! Better yet, can I get an AMEN! THANK YOU, LORD! This home building journey certainly has had its moments and trials, but it has certainly had more holy moments than challenging ones. In an effort to thank and honor God for his blessings upon us, we are having a Thank You God house party, instead of a house warming party. For our Thank You God party, I asked one of our priests from our new parish, if he could do a home Mass. I thought that would be a great way to honor God in our home.
Well, it turns out that we aren’t able to have Mass in our home, but we are able to do a home and family blessing ritual. Father also suggested enthroning us and our home to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Okay, what does that mean? Thank goodness Father provided a link, so I could check it out. I also put the link below, so that you too can check it out. One of the needed items mentioned was a picture or statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Yes, I could go buy something new, but I really wanted something that was already part of my family. Something that felt like home, not new, polished, and sterile. Granted, quite a bit of our nick nack items have been packed up for a couple years now, just waiting to move, so I wasn’t quite sure what I would find, but I wasn’t planning on digging in boxes. As I walked into our dinning room, I have a framed picture of Jesus on top of our china hutch that belonged to my grandparents. The picture has a matte around it, so I wasn’t able to see the entire picture, so I took it out of the frame. Sure enough, it is the Sacred Heart of Jesus. But here’s the thing that gave me God bumps. Check out the back of the picture.
Seriously, this gave me God bumps. I’ve had this image of Jesus watching over our family, I don’t know how many years. It’s one of those images that His eyes follow you. God ahead, try it. As you walk around, His eyes follow you. Pretty cool! I knew this picture came from one of my grandparents, but I couldn’t remember for sure, which one. I think we’ve narrowed it down to my dad’s side of the family, possibly from my grandma’s cousin, who was a priest.
So, before finding this image, I new I wanted to set up our alter area for the Sacred Heart of Jesus in our dinning room area, so that we would see Him as soon as we entered our home. So, it was just so perfect that I found Him in the dining room. When I looked closer at the image and realized it is the Sacred Heart of Jesus and then seeing the back, I got a bit choked up and said to Him…”You were right there all along.”
In sooooo many ways, He has always been right there with me. That moment was just such a solid reminder for me. I hope it is for your as well.
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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