To order a home.
To create a space of peace
and maintain it
for the purpose of restful abiding and relationship.
It is God’s work.
He began it
with the separating of waters
and the gathering of seas
and the assigning of roles.
He made it
to be in it
on the seventh day
with mankind.
It is God’s work:
to turn chaos into ordered beauty
for rest and love.
Thus, we, in his image,
mimic His work
ordering rightly for peace,
separating good from ill,
gathering comforts,
assigning jobs,
for the purpose of living and loving
in this place
an ordered space.
Then indirectly through our labor—
gestation, ministration,
jurisdiction, recommendation—
we will have made ready
little hearts
for the King.
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