While resting this morning, I thought of how good God has been to us after our house fire on Good Friday, 2023… How our living conditions have improved. I think of Jesus who left His Residence in Heaven with its perfect beauty- streets of Gold, walls of polished stones, ivory and pearl, and emptied Himself to live in very poor conditions. Floors of pressed dirt, streets of stones and mule manure, dirty puddles and lice infestations.

Jesus’s humility didnt’ allow for a puffed up ego. Without contention or complaint, He remained emptied of self while living in Nazareth as He grew up on earth in very poor earthly conditions. I opened up blindly to His recorded words to Gabrielle Bossis in her journal, “He and I”, after asking Him regarding this, and He gave me the following:

“Don’t you live as though you were all going to remain on earth forever? You so seldom give even a furtive glance at the life Beyond, at your Residence of tomorrow, when your heart should already be there, thanking Me, praising Me, adoring Me every day and in every action of the day. You, at least you, child.. is your soul filled with Me? Do you breathe for Me alone? Do you still put your interests before Mine, or in your earthly pilgrimage do you carry Me before you like a lantern?…”

Wow…a few months after our housefire, after moving into our new rental home, I found a porcelain ornament in a local department store that seemed as though it was placed there expressly for me. It was with the Christmas ornaments, yet it was not related to Christmas. It had no price and the clerk didn’t know how it got there and gave it to me for only 25 cents. On it is a painting of a butterfly on flowers, and the words, “All this and Heaven too”. I took that as a message from our Lord that , yes, He was blessing us with a material rental property, but don’t forget our True Home in Heaven… ! All things on this Earth will pass away (As I learned early during our house fire last year) but only God remains and our relationship with HIM!