So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:19-20
Being a member of a household, having a sense of home, is vital to our lives and our quality of life. In a senior community, staff, family and residents endeavor to find ways to spark a sense of home in a new living situation. Often, it is the relationships which blossom that make a new residence a home.
Recently, the daughter of a resident of Artman who died wrote, “We don’t know when death will come except that it is in God’s hands and in God’s time…I am so thankful that Artman was her home for 6 years. I am so thankful for all of your care and support. She was wonderful, strong and sharp as a tack. Thank you for allowing her to remain herself. You never took her identity or spirit away…You have a calling for which I will always be thankful to have observed.”
In God’s hands, we are beloved as saints as children of God, members of God’s house. When we build relationships and move beyond being strangers to becoming brothers and sisters in the family of God, we glimpse the joy and hope God promises. Jesus Christ comes into the world to reveal a way of compassion and love. We follow Christ in this way, building a new home wherever we find ourselves using the foundation of God’s love.
Loving God, thank you for welcoming us into your house built on a foundation of joy and hope. Strengthen our calling to offer care and compassion to those whom we encounter as a sign of our shared membership in the household of God. Amen.
Excerpted from a note sent to Artman.
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