Creating a Home

To put our home into order

for the purpose of restful abiding, 

to create a space of peace 

and maintain it is God’s work. 


In Genesis he began it 

with waters in need of separation 

and seas gathered together 

and fruitful tasks to assign. 


His work is to make beauty of chaos 

for the purpose of abiding with us. 

Homes and hearts set in order 

for God to dwell with men. 

 

Thus, we, in his image, mimic 

separating good from ill, 

gathering together our treasures, 

and assigning each one his job. 


Thusly, through our labor— 

gestation, preservation, ministration, 

jurisdiction, recommendation, invocation— 

we make ready little hearts for the king. 

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