For a while now I have been in love with Miranda Lambert's song The House that Built Me. For some reason it just stirs something in my soul and makes me very nostalgic! Of course, it doesn't take that much to make me feel that way but for some reason, this song really does it!!! I'm sure alot of you think I'm over dramatizing the lyrics, etc.... but when you think about the words to this song.... it really does take you down memory lane!! Luckily, most of the memories are wonderful!!! I can't help but notice the comparisons to my every day life and the memories that are truly from the houses, cities, etc.... that I've lived in, or to the people that came into my life and made a lasting impact. I think about the dog's we buried, the rooms that I did my homework in... or listened to music in when I was suppose to be doing my homework!!! or the handprints left behind for another homeowner to wonder about!! I love it when she sings that if the lady of the house will just let her in for a minute... she won't take anything... just a memory!!! WOW!!! I sit here and wonder if my kids have memories worth taking from our houses.... is our home something that they will look back and say... This is the house that built me!!!! As the song progresses she begins to sing about how she got lost along the way.... she forgot who she was.... I have been there but thankfully, was drawn back Home! I got lost along the way and forgot "Whose" I was!! Haven't we all been rolling along life's path only to realize that we don't know where we are going or why??? I want so badly to change the lyrics and tell people that we need to realize Whose we are and not worry about "who" we are!!! Does that make since at all??? If we stray from God's path He is faithful to bring us back..... She also sings that if only "She could touch this place or feel it, This brokenness inside me might start healing" ... When we are broken, and tired.... praise God that He is there to pick us up and set us back on the right path... the one that He so carefully laid out for us from the beginning of time!!! We don't need to go back and touch some physical building... we just need to trust God and look to His word for comfort and guidance. Psalms 9:10 tells us "Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You!".
Looking back over some.. well, many... years!!!! The circumstances in my life and the people in my life have helped shape me and mold me into the person that God wants me to be.... I have tried to make my own paths way too many times and am by no means completely out of the woods, yet!!!! I don't suppose I will be until I see Him in all of His glory in Heaven!!! But.... I am realizing now that every circumstance that I tried to run from, hide from, etc... helped to strengthen my faith and that each "house" that I lived in... whether it be a literal house or a "house" of friends, or a "house" of trials... helped to build me and continues to do so. Now I want to press on and make our house a home that my children will look back and sing or say.... "If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.Won't take nothing but a memory... from the house that... built me!!!"
Lord, make our home a place where memories will be made... ones that will be cherished forever and passed down for generations to come!!! Thank You for Your promises in Joshua...Now fear the Lord and serve Him with all faithfulness... but if serving the Lord seems undesireable to you... choose for yourselves whom you will serve... As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord" vs. 14-15
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