"Huis vriende"

Thursday 1/21

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Making a place feel like home takes time and well some more time.  I've found delight in putting a few smallish pot plants around to tend and care for.  I'm slowly making it feel like my apartment.  Like a leather jacket it becomes better the more you wear it in.  Ones scent starts to infuse the history and it starts to take a new shape and function.

I must say I enjoy being a home body, being tucked away warmly in my nest.  I had a friend come visit this weekend and we just spent some time together at home.   We stayed in our pj's all day and I only went out to gather food.  

Some of you may know the Afrikaans term "huis vriende", which means house friends.  This easily distinguishes friends from close friends very well.  Some people are not people who you'd invite home and then there are those special ones who you welcome into your home and heart.  These are the friends that eat, sleep and talk with you until their heart is content.!

What peace and contentment it brings to know that we have someone who understands us, who listens to us, I repeat who listens to us.  These are rarities: someone who listens and someone who understands or at least seeks to understand.  A friend is someone who seeks to understand so they listen.  

My hope is that I would be someone who listens and seeks to understand, not someone who is seeking to give advice or categorize others for my own sense of security but someone who simply... Listens. 

May you know the deep and intimate friendship that God has to offer.  May you welcome Him into your heart and home. May you disern Him truly listening to your heart beat and may you know that He understands.

Love, 

Phoenix & Sarah 

  

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