Home court advantage...

This Mother's day weekend, Pastor Jim's wife ended up delivering the sermon. She's not a very good speaker, her message is also simple... and repetitive, but she speaks the truth. She talked about the importance of the "home court advantage"... such as with any sports, teams tend to do well when playing at their home stadiums... this is because of the loving support of the fans at home! So she's using that to stress the importance of our homes and our church home. She also wants us to know that God is our biggest fan and is always cheering for us and supporting us along the way...

It's kinda funny that she used this analogy when I just earlier posted in wife's blog about how God wants us to play the game of love well! ;)

How can we play it well? Training, I suppose. How do we train? I don't know. I don't really have all the winning strategies, but I suppose we can just play and have fun and learn as we go along!

Yes, sometimes our earthly homes can be messed up. Yes, sometimes even our church homes can be messed up too! There are plenty of messed up things on earth. So what do we do? Should we just pack up and leave and sign with a new and better team? Sure, that's the logical thing to do. However, in the game of love, it's really beyond logic! When is the time to simply move on? When is it time for us to keep at it to try to rebuild some messed up thing up?

These are questions we'll have to answer for ourselves... and to God.

Of course our ultimate home is in heaven. Unfortunately at this time, we're far away from that home... So just like ball players... sometimes they DON'T have that home court advantage... sometimes they have to play away from home..., but that's okay. Away from home doesn't mean we'll always lose. Plus, lucky for us that our biggest Fan and Support can be everywhere and anywhere... so we can always play to win no matter what! ;) Our primary objective is to play at some messed up place... and then make it a new home for us and for those around us.

Our natural tendency is to mess up, but a great player of this game of love is all about building up. Am I building up more or am I messing up more? Well, my only strategy at this point is to continue to build more and mess less... someday, I'll be a great lover! ;)

Today's scriptural reading... Jacob was buried back 'home'. Joseph also requested that he be buried back 'home' too. We've all been thru a lot... and people may not always know what we've been thru, but I hope we all can find ourselves a way back home.

(Gen 47-50)