#39. Overflowing Home

Home is meant to be the central place from which we worship and train up worshipers. It is naturally the locus of our maternal responsibilities. It won’t be the only place where responsibility and influence happens, but it is the basic place. We can’t leap over it. This is a bland thought if we’ve not known what it’s like to be in a home full of vitality; if we’re still trying to grow out of our boredom. To say that home is where we are primarily responsible and most influential can be insulting, or at least bewildering, if we have a purely functional view of the home. I’ve written in article #11 about how the instruction to ‘be busy at home’ is calling us to more, not less, than we imagine. The problem isn’t so much with home, but with its unrealised potential. We underestimate the influence we wield through it.