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My husband and I love architecture. In fact, many times during itineration we found ourselves in hotel rooms watching shows about houses, fixing up old houses, touring mansions, building new houses, buying houses, selling houses, decorating houses. Yep. We loved it all. My husband at one point much earlier in life had plans of attending school to become an architect and we each love attention to detail. Many times we, like most people, notice the intricate details that show us the focal points of the time frame of the house. We love the unusual trim or time spent to set a house apart from the normal cookie cutter manufactured look. I begin thinking about this thought today. I was making a special Sunday School for my two children and was getting just a little agitated as to why a children’s program had been started two or thee times here, and never made it past two Sundays. We struggle to keep kindergarten teachers in our schools too, “doesn’t anyone see the value in these children?” I exclaimed to my husband. “ where are the workers? Where are those who think children an important and worthy investment? Then it hit me, there is nothing glamorous about foundations. When we look at the beautiful finished project of an 18nth century house, I venture to say it has never been said, “did you see that gorgeous foundation?” When we work in children’s ministry we are working on the foundation of their lives. We seldom see the results as people go through many stages and move on and we cannot always follow their lives until the time of reaping from early investment. Human nature wants to be apart of the success stories, the instant gratification and recognition of being a world changers. Where are those willing to recognize the need for foundation even if they are never recognized for the time they take to lay it right? Years from now if a house is still standing we will look at the design points and highlights and might mention in passing, someone did a good job on that foundation for that house to still be standing, but what about a person’s foundation? Where are those that recognize the need to build on a child’s foundation even though it will undoubtedly not be recognized for what it is? It is hard and difficult to work with the weakest among us - the least self sufficient. It requires more patience than comes naturally to build and smooth that firm foundation, but if we are willing to be a part of this work, than I believe the results of that will be the kingdom of God standing on a firm foundation in our part of the world. There will come a time when God will reveal to those investing in children the difference their obedience to Him has made. Oh that more would hear the cry for the humble man, willing to work on a strong albeit forgotten foundation!
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