In the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, the importance of how we love, cherish and live within our homes matter.
My dear friend Sally, along with her daughter Sarah, have recently written a book together called: The Life Giving Home. In it Sally and Sarah share examples of ways to turn a house into a home. An environment that cultivates love, belonging and grace. What I’ve enjoyed most about their book is the balance between inspiration and practical. Sally and Sarah do a beautiful job sharing with us the “Why” creating a “Life Giving Home” is so important, but they go further than just explaining the importance of the “Why” they share examples of the “How”. “How” to create a Life Giving Home through special traditions, celebrations, memories, meals and simple routines just to list a few.
Today I’m excited to share that Sally & Sarah are giving us 8 sets of their books: The Life Giving Home and The Life Giving Home Experience (co-written by Joel Clarkson) to 8 winners!
You can also purchase their books online here:
The Life Giving Home
The Life Giving Home Experience
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Being comfortable enough to take a nap on the couch, back porch, or wherever makes a home a home for me
when I think of a well loved home I think of my friends home. Her mom had an open door policy, if was nothing for a bunch of us teens to randomly show up. It was a safe haven, a place of love, comfort, and full of Godly advice! That’s the kind of home (and mom) I want to have and be. 🙂
What makes a house a home is unconditional love, comfort, yummy food, laughter and grace.
I would like to make God a comfortable part of our home. Although we do speak freely about Him, I want His presence to be more real and a natural element in every facet of our daily lives. I appreciate practical ways to make this happen. Thank you for the opportunity to win this bundle.
Home should be a place where you are loved unconditionally. A place where you can go to find refuge from the storms of life. A place with familiar sights, smells and sounds (for those of us who are older). Home should be a place where bonds of love and relationship can flourish. A place with game nights and comfort food. Home should be a safe place both physically and spiritually. Home should be a place that God encompasses completely. A place where His presence can be felt and experienced.
A few years ago we were at a church bible study. Afterwards we invited friends to the house. We gave our friends a key to our house and told them to make themselves comfortable as we had to stop by the store before going home. When we got to the house we discovered that the wife had fallen asleep. Her husband covered her with a blanket and we just let her sleep while we visited. Her husband woke her before they left and she said she has always felt very comfortable at our house so falling asleep there was no big deal. She knew we wouldn’t mind. We have always found that to be a compliment.
Wow…this question is really making me think, as I struggle with this. The one word that is being magnified in my mind is love…unconditional love. I remember sitting in a foster care training where the instructor gave us what looked like bloody brain. He explained that this is a model of a traumatized brain. He explained that as foster parents, this is what will be coming into our homes as a reality check to us. He proceeded to show us how the brain develops and what happens at each part of the brain, etc. But, when trauma hits, the brain stops growing. So, you may have a fifteen year old teenager operating in a five year old mindset because some sort of trauma stopped the development of this child’s brain. But, the hope is that there has been only one thing that can heal a traumatized brain…unconditional love! He proceeded to share how biologically it’s been proven and then pulled the Gospel right in. As a mom, I have been challenged with this in my home as I want to love my children unconditionally despite their choices I may not agree with. I grew up in a single parent home where we had some different levels of dysfunction. So, my model has some tainted views of what a home should be like,especially since we were not believers growing up. So, this is something I continually cry out to God so my kids and husband feel they are stepping into a home more than a house. We are a far cry from.perfect, but God is with us and is helping us.
Jessa,
My heart is so touched by your story! You are loved, and prayed for. I am committing to pray for you !
A house is just a physical space in which people dwell. A home is a safe haven in which people learn and love and grow together. We moved a few times when I was growing up, so our house changed but our home moved with us …wherever our family was, there was home!
I love giving life to my home by His grace. That starts with prayer.
Relationship & interaction of people living in the house. Unconditional love, acceptance, and grace!
I love that our children feel and know this is their home. I want to continue that throughout their lives. I love that others feel at home here. That those who come into our home know that this a place that loves the Lord.
Home is a refuge. A place where honesty, vulnerability, sincerity, and trust are valued highly. Where forgiveness and encouragement are given liberally. Where correction and discipline are practiced consistently and lovingly.
Yes, a refuge, with all that means.
My family & pets
Love and a welcome feeling makes a house a home. I love having the kids and grandkids come home. I have a “no knocking rule” in our house with our kids and grandkids. Once they left the nest, they are never allowed to knock on the door before coming in. They all know this is always home to them. We have a bedroom decorated for the grandkids that they can go in and have all the things they have at their own homes. I believe my house is obvious to all that enter that they are welcome! ?
Love makes a house a home. A home is a safe haven with open arms and loving hearts that always welcome, forgive and nourish.
I believe how you love you family and guests is what makes it a home. But sometimes I don’t want people to come over because of the mess my house might be in at that time. I want my house to be more inviting, but I don’t feel it is. I would love to get this book to get some inspiration on this area in my life.
Thank you for the opportunity to receive your book.
I think having a peaceful and welcoming tone makes a house a home.
laughter, hugs, sharing/cooking food, being together and connecting hearts – I would love to read the new book, what makes a life giving home and want to share it with my daughter. bless you for your ministry, Jen and team!
Home is a place to be with the ones you love most in the world! Family and friends…. making them comfortable and welcome!
Love is what makes a house a home.
Yes, love love love.
I think and believe a home has little to do with the actual structure of a house( the building) itself. Growing up I lived in over 14 different houses by the time I finished high school. I often longed to have a permanent address like the majority of all my friends. I can say though despite the wide variety of “houses” I lived in, spanning from basement apartments, a family members sewing room and even a tent, I always felt at home with the love of my family! I believe it’s all about the love that is found in the home.
Love and security make a house a home. It’s about spending time together, talking, laughing, crying. It’s not about what the house looks like or how big.
Home should be a place where communication happens. During happy joyful times but also during difficult challenging times. I want my home to be and I believe it is a place my children feel loved, know they are loved and can bring friends in that are hurting to be ministered to.
Home…Where God should be followed, served, and worshipped. What an awesome opportunity to win this package – we’re just starting a women mentoring program in our church – great resource to use!
What makes a house a home? The family living in that home is what it is all about. It’s not about how it looks it is about relationships. One of the most important things about a home is if Christ is welcome there. Does Christ dwell with us in our house? A house can be new, and big and beautiful but if Christ is not dwelling it is just a house, not a home.
A house becomes a home where anyone who enters feels comfortable and welcomed. It is a place of friendship, warmth and unconditional love.
I think it’s all about spending time together and connecting, laughing, eating together. Just being present and active in each other’s lives.
A home is a place of safety and comfort. A place where love and forgiveness abounds.
Jesus as the center! Love, laughter, spending time together. Having meals together is important too.
Love Sally!!!
What makes a house a home is having my family together. It doesn’t matter where we are, as long as my husband and kids are together with me and embracing the Love of God. As a family, living to bring glory to God is what makes a house a home. It’s not about the stuff, but who you get to share life with.
For me, a house becomes a home when it’s filled with my family, relaxing and enjoying each other’s company…lamp light bathing us all in the evenings while we sit and look out the back patio door, marveling at the pink and orange hues painted on the sky by the setting sun…sweet laughter from my 2 young kids as they tickle each other on the living room rug…cuddling with my husband on our overstuffed couch…the mountain of laundry in baskets that has yet to be folded…the sound of my Keurig brewing a glorious cup of coffee…God’s presence all around. That’s what makes a house a home to me!
Love and acceptance makes a house a home.
Always looking for ways to make a happy and peaceful home that serves the lord
Just talked about the book with a friend who is translating book into French. I ordered a copy(in English) It sounds great.
A house is a home when the Lord is the center and people are free to be themselves and grow is safety and grace.
A house makes a home when you can sing, dance, love and have fun together. But also when you can share your hearts witch each other, when there is time to have fun, be quiet, cry and yell sometimes. Just be yourselves and lift each other up, give room to fall and to grow. And that’s for everyone: wife, husband, children… Pray for each other and seek God together.
I would love to receive one of these copies. I have always found Sally’s writing to be so encouraging and challenging. I love how she doesn’t write what I want to hear, but what I need to hear.
I have been watching Sally and her daughter’s “quotes” on Instagram. Looks like a book that would be a blessing!
I hope that our home is a place full of grace, forgiveness and love. All wrapped together with the presence of God upon us. That being said that is not always the case in our home but we keep moving forward to try to be better every day. This book would be great place to find encouragement to continue to create the best environment for my family.
A few others have thought along the same lines, but I say that the family, the people we share the space with, make a house a home. My husband is a realtor. We tour a lot of homes. We buy a number of them. Some we move into. Some we flip. They are houses until they have inhabitants. We talk about them as houses as we decide whether to purchase. Any of them can be a home, for us or the eventual buyers, but they are merely houses, structures, until then.
What a wonderful book! I want one for myself, but I think this would be a great present for new parents. I know for me, home is where my family is. It is where my husband wrestles and throws the kids on the bed, it is where we sit down as a family and eat dinner together, it is where we play games on the floor, and dance to the Gummy Bear song over and over and over again!
Excited for this giveaway
A home should speak grace. Through what we say, what we do, and how we go about our routines. A place where a rhythm is developed for everyone within it to thrive. A haven for all who enter. Not perfection, just trying to make beauty out of the messiness of life!
When you just want to grab a cup of tea and a blanket, sit on the couch and let the peace come over you. I just had a visit from mother in law and that was what she enjoyed the most.
Loving unconditionally, being understanding, showing love in many ways, and a place to talk about anything.
Making a house a home is creating an environment where people are loved, blessed, and peaceful. It’s impossible without the love of God. Cultivating your relationship with God first enhances all other relationships in your life … marriage, children, friendship, fellowship.
God’s love make a house a home.
A place of refuge and peace for the ones living there and a haven of hospitality and grace for the stranger.
Home is where the heart is. If God has my heart, He has my home and all that comes from it and to it.
A house that is a home is marked with the love of God. If I am following Christ, His love will be evident.
My house feels like home when there is life in it. When there are people in it that are comfortable and feel at home in it. One of my favorite things is when people are so comfortable on my home that they don’t wait for me to answer the door, they open the door and announce themselves. And when they help themselves to anything in my kitchen, when they know their way around my kitchen.
When you share God’s abundant love from your heart to everyone in your house, that transforms a house into a Home. Especially, when all who enters feels God’s love, warmth and belonging.
I am super excited to attend her Launch Party on the 6th. LOVE Sally!!!
Love, trust, and grace make a loving home. Can’t wait to read this book.
Love is what makes a house a home. The feeling and knowledge that you are loved unconditionally and that you are surrounded by those who love you.
The people are what makes a house a home. How welcomed you are made to feel and how loved.
I believe that the love for people who live in it and/or enter into it makes a house a home. Thank you for offering this great giveaway.
My house feels like a home when my family has healthy nourishing food and they are all relaxed and happy and enjoying life.
Home…is hopefully where you can breathe a sigh of relief.
A comfortable, lived in place, where you can relax and be yourself. Throw pillows, afghans, books. Beautiful artwork, scripture prints.
I love Sally Clarkson and was sad I had to miss her last conference here in CO this past weekend. I would love to read this book.
Hard to put into words…unconditional love, laughter, support for one another. Big house or small, what matters most is who is here with me,
The peace to love, laugh, and give the grace be who we are is what makes a house a home. 🙂
I would love to win the set! My word for this year is create, whether it’s creating a piece of art or music, or creating a beautiful home for my family to be at peace in, this would be a great accompaniment!
Aaah building a home….we need first love to build a home, and how do we get that love and spread to others? It’s through Jesus! By accepting him as our Lord and savior to saved us from our sins. I accepted him first in my life before I was able to build a home that was wreck by sins. He taught me how to love myself first and that love I spread to my husband and my children, then I was able to build a home. I remembered I have prayed that whoever enter in our home may find love, peace and comfort and boy did I see that! I have a sister who came and visited us for the first time, whom I know works double job in order to pay her big home. My sister and her husband slept with us for a night and gave them our master bedroom. The next morning I found her face very refreshing as if she had been relaxed in our home, then the thought of my prayer came to my mind about the love, peace and comfort whom enter our home, since then she often visit us. I know also that our home can be attacked by our enemies which I was’nt even aware of before. I have let the evil or Satan destroyed our home that is built with love, peace and comfort that same situation I was in before receiving him as my Lord and Savior. I am now building our home once again or rather God is building our home once again. I asked Him to help me build it on the rock (which is Him) and not in the sand that can be easily destroyed. Through that experience I am not allowing Satan to destroyed our home anymore and been aware of his tactics in each and everyone of us. My prayer Father God is to protect us from the attacked of the evil ones, let your love shine through me to those I love in our home, especially my husband and children and spread to others for, “God is love” 1 John 4:4. May you give me wisdom, knowledge and understanding of how to build our home once again the way you did before. May your love, peace and comfort be evident in our home like the way it was before that whoever may enter our home feels your love for them, in Jesus most Holy name the name above all names, Amen.
Would love to win this.
A home should be a place filled with God’s love, peace and warmth. Everyone and anyone who comes into that home should leave with the impression that there is something different about the home of the love, warmth, peace, contentment, joy…that fills the home
Sounds interesting. Thanks for the opportunity to win the book.
Home is our refuge, where we are accepted, loved, given grace; allowed to heal, rebuild, relax and rejenerate! It is a haven for family and a welcome and loving environment for those that enter and are invited in.
Love makes a house a home.
Love and laughter and tears make a home
A house is a home when there is stability and love.
Even tho my kids are grown they still come back to home.When they are in a pickle or need advice or prayer or excited about something.It is where they feel safe.Isn’t that what are God wants of us children ? Hearing the words of a song your a good good father it’s who you are and I am so loved.
I’d love this book! I may need to get a few and do a giveaway myself!
Where I go to feel safe and loved.
A home is comfort, safety, a haven. It’s the atmosphere not the “stuff”. It’s family.
Home should be a place that nurtures life; Spiritually, physically, emotionally…where we can breathe deeply and know we are known and loved for who we truly are!?
Wow!! it is a place where I can find my rest and peace with God and my family. Where my doors can be open to others no matter what is happening at the time. A place where even in my heart I can open the doors and let his work be made known
Love makes a house a home–no matter the sparseness or opulence, if love resides, it is home.
Love makes a home for sure. My mom taught me growing up that home should be a haven from the world. If there is one safe place for our kids, it should be our home. Thanks for the chance.
I would love to learn more about making my home a haven for my family.
A home is a safe place–a refuge, filled with love and grace that can only be supplied through what Jesus has done.
A trite answer, perhaps, but love is what I think of.
Good meals, good conversations, and loved ones all under one roof help to make a house a home.
Love makes a house a home. My husband and I have lived in a tiny apartment, a huge home, and everything in between; and each place felt like home. The only that was the same in each home was our love for each other.
Love for God and love for others makes a home.
Feeling of peace and security. Family and friends feeling welcomed and unrushed.
A home is where you go for safety, comfort, encouragement, love, hugs/kisses and also honesty. It should also be a Godly home. Which I need to make him more of a priority in our home.
Thanks for this wonderful giveaway! 🙂
A giving Spirit. Giving of time, energy and especially love.
I have been hearing about this and it is on my book list this year.
This is definitely on my to-read list in 2016. My husband and I have been married about a year and a half, and I would love inspiration on how to have a life-giving home, which is all about how you treat the people inside those four walls, not how *perfect* it is. Thank you for hosting this giveaway!
I think a house is a home when there is love, peace, safety and God in the house. Most important- that God is the center! I think it also becomes a home when the house is used to minister to the family, friends, and neighborhood. It’s not just a building but a source to share God’s love <3
THANKS for the chance to win! savannahland2 at comcast dot net
A home is a safe place…where you know you are loved and all within have your best interest at heart.
Would love to win the book!
A life giving home is one with Jesus at the center of it all.
A home should be your safe haven you can retreat to. Where there is no judgment! You can just grow with one another. Love should be the center of the home!
Being married to a retired military husband, I learned quickly it isn’t a place
Putting up our personal items and making it familiar and comfortable was a need. We don’t have the cleanest home but people feel comfortable when they visit. It’s not a showplace that they worry about breaking something or getting it dirty.
oh I would love to win this. My family needs an intervention. At times I feel like I am the only one who loves each person in this home. I have 8 children. 1 we don’t know (she belongs to my husband’s first relationship and she left pregnant, so we never met her) my oldest from a previous relationship seems so lost but she thinks since she’s 19 she knows what’s best, 14 yr son who has so much anger pined in him, i just wish he would release it to Jesus, 11 yr son who is not going through puberty well, 8 yr girl who wishes we had more girls in the house and had a better relationship with her older sister, 6 yr son who I call my alphabet child, he is Autistic, ADHD, ADD, OCD, ODD and has anger out bursts at times, 5 yr son who is little and seems to get lost in the crowd because of the 6yr and the 4yr old, who is going through the terrible twos now.. so to say the least my hands are full each day and I am thankful i have Jesus and friends who pray for me…
A home is about the people and the feeling of safety, security, and ability to truly be oneself.
We’ve recently moved into a 30 foot trailer full time. Clearing out the stuff, moving from 3200 SF brought home to me the fact that home is where my people are! The stuff, the setting – not so important. Being together, making memories, sharing life – that’s home for me.
Home is where you are accepted and loved unconditionally
What makes a house a home… is who dwells there with you. Who you share your life with, and how y’all live it.
Would love to have the books and be inspired to be a better mother for my kids. Thank you!
Thanks for the opportunity
Home is full of love, where anyone and everyone is welcome. There is laughter and sometimes tears, but in all of it there is Love for all
What makes a house a home? I think it’s about the mama’s heart. We’ve lived with less and we’ve lived with more – and my heart is always to make home a safe-haven.
God and family make a house a home
I believe the difference in a house and a home is that those who enter into a home are immediately greeted with warmth and hospitality. They feel loved and comforted. They feel wanted and welcomed. A home smells warm and inviting and is clean and comfortable.
I think that home is a place that you feel welcome. It is so good for me that I feel my church as my home. There people that support me and sharng with me their stories. They made me a better person
I think a house is made into a home when you and your family are able to be who they were designed to be without any judgement, only acceptance, love and affirmation. We are free to play, laugh, and cry openly together.
I think home means feeling comfortable and safe, but free to bounce ideas around, try out new things, and fail, knowing that its all part of the process and you are loved in the midst…
We are still learning how to merge our blended family household. Routines and traditions are sometimes conflicting, so we keep trying lol.
Everyone at the kitchen table for dinner.
Christ Centered! Love!
The place where you are free to be yourself. An inviting, fun and happy place for everyone to enjoy.
Love makes a house a home. The presence of Christ.
Love is what makes a house a home. Different people see things different — neat & organized, clutter, etc., but love is bigger than everything. Some homes you can walk into and just feel the welcome, others the tension is obvious.
What a beautiful idea for a book! I want my house to be comfortable and lived in…my husband wants it to be clean and clutter free. Our compromise is that I try to keep the public places clean and clutter free…the rest is comfortable and lived in 🙂
It’s a place of safety where love is shared and peace is had and where the Love of Jesus is shared and shown to one another ?
I was hoping to help promote the book. But God had other plans. I took a month off from Facebook and was unable to make the commitment. Hoping to win it here and then lead a book study group with it.
This is a tough question and one I have recently been struggling with. When my husband and I bought our house a few years ago we bought it with the intentions that it would be a place to host Bible studies, encourage friends, be a home for visitors, and a place where God dwells. We want our home to be a place where God’s presence rests. Have we succeeded? In part, but I am sure that there is way more we could be doing!
A house is a home when it is filled with the people you love. When all who come in are welcome and when it is someplace safe, a haven to come home to after being out in the chaos of the world.
No matter the house..feeling loved and welcome makes all the difference.
Laughter!
Spontaneous dance breaks makes our house a home. We have so much fun
I’m still learning about creating a home. But I think it’s a welcome to everyone who enters, opening not just our homes but our hearts too, to all who enter under our roofs. Loving, giving guidance, sharing both the ups and downs that life has to offer us. Being hospitable.
For me, my house is turned into a home by the people I share it with!
Calm conversations. Dinner at the table..complete with everyone at the table..
A home is a place where the Holy Spirit is welcome first and foremost. It is also a place with an open door policy even if your house is messy! Each person that walks in the door is welcomed without judgment and made part of the family. Holidays and birthdays aren’t just for blood family. Food and drinks are always offered. Prayer is freely given even without being asked. There is laughter and a child like feeling in the home but plenty of comfy couch space for serious conversation, tears, anger or any other range of emotions. The home also has boundaries and expectations that are explained in love. A home is where you want to be and not just where you live. A home is a place where learning is a part of daily life and not just in an academic sense. Growth happens at home. Home should challenge you to be a better person every day and provide you with the safety to fail and security to succeed. A home smells like fresh cut flowers or fresh baked cookies or slow cooked spaghetti sauce and not like cat pee or musty towels! A home is full of memories and traditions and always willing to add more! Home is where my moms ugly green sweater is! It is the warmest, oversized, knitted sweater that always a Kleenex in the pocket and was worn by anybody who was sick or cold. Everybody knows about the ugly green sweater in my parents house and where to find it without having to ask for it!
A home is where there is love and the Holy Spirit dwells. It doesn’t matter how messy a house is it is a home where everyone is welcomed no matter who it is or how it looks. There are no secrets life is an open book and people are not judged.
This is something I need to work on! Either way this is a book I feel I should read
Where you feel like you belong and are loved
I think love, joy, true welcome when people visit, and most of all, loving God and serving Him makes a home special.
Home is where you can let down your hair and where other people feel accepted, safe, wanted, heard, respected, honored, cherished, etc. It can be messy but welcoming anyway.
Peace, warmth, and an at-home feeling for anyone who walks in, is what makes a house a home in my mind. If people can’t be comfortable or are afraid of knocking something over, they’re not going to feel at ease and right at home.
I believe the cliché ‘home is where the heart is’ but I think it is important to remember that we are unable to love without the one who first loved us….our Heavenly Father. He taught us to love by His mercy and grace.
Home is where you are accepted & loved, no matter what.
This is a tremendous blessing!
I think what makes a home is the feeling of love and acceptance and warmth! I feel that when guests walk in if they can feel God’s presence in your house then it is home.
Just the comments and snippets I have read from this book have been life-giving. Can’t wait to read all Sally and Sarah have to share.
To me, a house is a home filled with love, laughter, good food and of course Jesus!
A home is anywhere my family is all together!
Anytime and anywhere you find Agape love.
The unconditional love and acceptance for the people who live in it and/or enter into it makes a house a home. Thank you for offering this great giveaway.
I just ordered 4 copies of the book but can certainly think of women I dearly love that I could give another 8 to!!!
Can’t wait to begin reading it!!!
Would love this set for myself and a friend and “our new to us” homes. T o me family and Love with God at the center makes a house a home.
Great gift! Would love to win this! 🙂
Family gathered around the table.makes my house a home.
house is a place you just live in and store things.
a home is a place where you come to life- where there is a lot of joy, family and friends.
It’s a place of comfort and a place that offers and brings peace
I can’t wait to read this book. I do desire to create a home like this, but struggle so much with creating a peaceful, life giving environment. Growing up, my home was pretty chaotic and there was a lot of turmoil in our family, so I am anticipating the “how to”.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Thank you for your ministry!! Blessings!
My husband and fury babies Thank you for all God Bless you!
Just the title of the book encourages me. I want my home to be life giving! A place where love and grace are freely poured out.
God as the central focus, unlimited grace and acceptance.
The love and laughter of family and friends, with Jesus Christ at the center. Also, being welcoming, helping people to be at ease.
I think the love you share in your house makes it a home and the memories you think of is all the love and laughter your share and it made it your home.
Home – a place to love, worship, share, laugh, cry, and eat! 🙂
A warm, lived-in feeling where friends and loved ones are welcome.
LOVE….makes a house a home. Not curtains, furniture or materials things. Along with love….FAMILY….as a military family we have realized family is not only blood but the ones we love unconditionally, no matter what. The ones who show up, not just say they will. You are what you do, not what you say. We are all family in the eyes of our most Precious, Loving Father. And that makes a home, and you can take home in your heart and take it where ever you go. Not a house made of bricks and mortar, that can be destroyed in seconds by fire, wind, water.
LOVE + FAMILY = HOME <3 <3 <3
Home is where my family is.
Love is what makes a home. When love of God, love of family permeates the air, there is an overwhelming sense of peace and belonging.
I believe foremost that the presence and the peace of God should be felt as you walk through the door. I believe that I as the keeper of the home have a great part in setting the tone in my home. Lovely things are wonderful but a lovely countenance and atmosphere are so important. My wish is that my home would be somewhere we want to be.
Home is where God and my loved ones are. It’s a place I feel loved and safe. It’s more of a feeling than a physical place for me.
A home is familiar and safe and full of God’s presence. A home is about the atmosphere and being in it together.
A home is a place to be yourself around family (and friends). A place to relax, laugh, eat, enjoy traditions, and fellowship.
A home is a place of family, love, peace, and security. I want my home to be more of God and His love. When Christ is the center of the home- there is unity, love, peace, and security. All frustrations must stop- just give it to the Lord and remain in peace. I want all people who come to my house to be comfortable. I want people to WANT to come to my home. I really miss the fellowship.
A place to be your true self, to refresh and reflect.
Home = grace, forgiveness, welcoming arms, encouraging words, learning together
Home is a safe place where God dwells and those that enter and or live there can be themselves because they know they are loved unconditionally.
A home is where there is love and acceptance.
A home is made and filled with the love that is shared with those that live there. Its a place you can always go back to no matter where life takes you.
Warmth, smiles, hugs and acceptance make a house a home!
I think allowing people to be comfortable and using the spaces in your house, rather than just keeping everything spotless and picked up makes it a home. Of course, there is a time to clean, but make sure it isn’t at the expense of allowing family to truly let their guard down and enjoy each other. A happy balance. 🙂
I think home is the company you keep and sometimes just the love which you share since the traditional sense of home can be difficult for so many of us .
A house is made home when it is filled with those I love and has comfortable places for us to spend time together and also comfortable places for private time.
simply the people in it. i have had nice homes and not-so-nice homes, but family is family no matter where we are!
What makes a home, Is where lies hospitality and warmth Twenty Four Seven Around the Clock despite of consequences!
There are so many attributes that define a home. For me unconditional love encompasses a lot, love from God. A home is a safe haven/nest for a family to be free and completly themselves away from the world.
I think it is the people in it and how they treat each other.
Home is where the heart is because it’s a place that holds love, life, understanding, healing, encouragment, strength, character, peace, and more for those that walk through the door
It’s a strange thing now a days,when I was young my mom had friends over in the morning.They would sit at the kitchen table have coffee and some kind of coffee cake.I remember mom always had close friends who were happy to be visiting and talking and laughing.I saw it as common thing …Now as I get older I would love to do this.Everyone seems so busy.No one takes to sit and talk drink coffee or tea.If I say hey maybe you can come and visit awhile,they often say “why”.Things have really changed, I still will remember those days.
it looks like the books are back ordered :(, I really hope I can win a set so I can start reading already.
I’m looking forward to starting new traditions as we just moved to a new home.
What makes a house a home is the love and people I share it with.
What makes house a home is love, vulnerability, truth, grace, and lots of hugs, tears, prayer, and snuggles!
I have always struggled with the picture I have in my head of what home should be and what I am actually capable of. I have a toddler and a husband and 2 dogs. My house may never be spotlessly clean and organized in my lifetime and it will definitely not look like the homes in the magazines or on television. But it will always be a place where company can sit down and put there feet up, throw a soft blanket over themselves in the winter or curl up and enjoy the cool in the summer.
I didn’t have that sort of place when I was a kid. I could use some help with it now.
A safe place, for teaching, learning, growing, loving, trusting, encouraging those we love. A place to invite others in and show hospitality to. A place for grace to flow and courage to build. A place to build sweet memories. A place where we will freely serve the Lord. A place to pray and worship our king!