What our homes should really be like!

I heard a song the other day on the radio, I wasn't exactly in love with the music but I loved the lyrics. I came right home and looked up the lyrics, this is the part of the song that made me really think. If you want to read the rest of the lines, just look up the song like I did on Google.

The song reminds us what our homes should really be like for our kids ( and for ourselves). A place of safety, where core values are taught, where there are fond memories and teachings that remind you constantly of who you really are. It should be a place where you are expected to be the best at whatever you do. There in our home we should be taught that the sky is the limit when it comes to our hopes and dreams. It should be a place of  unconditional love. Some times in the world we tend to forget who we are, our values and our potential. What a neat thought that just by coming home or seeing home or thinking about home, we can remember all the wonderful things we were taught and gain back our sense of value. Yes our home, should be like this for each of us and for our children. What a good reminder of that today!!!

"Peace - that was the other name for home."  ~Kathleen Norris

Miranda Lambert - "The House That Built Me"

Lyrics:

I know they say you cant go home again.
I just had to come back one last time.
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam.
But these hand prints on the front steps are mine.
And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom
is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.
And I bet you didn’t know under that live oak
my favorite dog is buried in the yard.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like i’m someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear i’ll leave.
Won’t take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can.
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like i’m someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could walk around I swear i’ll leave.
Won’t take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.

 

"Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms."  ~William J. Bennett

"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other.  It is the place of confidence.  It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts.  It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule."    ~Frederick W. Robertson

“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”  David O. McKay