The man looked at the house he and his wife had built together. It was a lovely structure with all the finest things money could buy. But there were cracks. Cracks in the walls. Cracks in the ceilings. Cracks in the floors.
They had built their house on a bad foundation.
Every time the earth shifted, the house moved and cracked. And it weakened. It could not survive the changes that life threw at it. It could handle better but not worse. He sat looking at the structure and realized that the cracks were just symptoms of a deeper problem.
He sat at the table and drew up a new blueprint. He wasn’t just going to patch the cracks: He was going to strengthen the foundation. To pour his time, treasure and heart into what really mattered. It would take a lot of work and wouldn’t be easy. But like the man in the Good Book who had built his house on stone instead of sand, they’d build a new house on faith, not things. On love, not doubt. On hope, not fear.
They would build a house strong enough to be a home. A home with the strongest foundation in town.
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