Thursday - So Where Are We Truly More at Home?

So just what do the neighbors think about the new folks next door when two vans, a bus and a pickup truck show up at the house? And then, more than 60 people -- all of them foreigners -- pour out of the vehicles and surround the house, laying hands on it? What must the neighbors' think? Can you imagine the conversations over dinner?
That's exactly what we did. The house's yard was too small for us all to fit in and so we spilled out onto the dirt road. We surrounded the home, laying our hands on it and praying. Papa Joe led the prayer. And the woman, whose house we built, responded by asking God to bless us.

I think we should try this at home. Descend in mass at a church member's home, surround it, lay hands on it and pray over it. Or are we worried what the neighbors might say? Are we more at-home in a foreign country to let go and lay hands on a house? More at-home, where we don't know anyone and can't speak the language to be all-in crazy about doing God things?

And so the question is how much of what we're doing this week will we take home with us and change our lives and the lives around us? Let's give the neighbors something to talk about.

There is just something about home that draws us and makes reach out to our family. It was interesting to see how many families felt it was important that they gather for a picture in of the house we built. I wonder what it is.