6th Sunday of Easter Homemaking Few things are more important to people than a home. Enormous work is put into providing the house. The style, the arrangement of the furniture, the colour scheme, all influence how a house looks when one walks in but they don’t make a home. The human input is even more important. Great personal commitment is needed to transform a building into a haven where we can nurture our family and be nurtured ourselves. Each person has to listen and love, to help and to receive help, and most especially to be there on a regular basis. Jesus uses our experience of homemaking as an image of the relationship that God wants to have with us. He calls us to listen to the Father, to be open to the Spirit so that they can come and make a home within us. The qualities that are needed to make a human home are the ones that we need to allow God to be at home within us. We need to be there, present to God, on a regular basis. We need to listen to God and to speak to God from the depths our heart and we need to be ourselves, to let ourselves relax into God’s love. Every home feels different when one walks in because every home is made up of the unique combination of the people living there. In the same way, God’s homemaking within each of us is unique and special. I have found it interesting to ponder about just what type of home God and I are making together, what is special about the way we communicate together. When one ponders like that, one can see some of the special ways God calls each of us and speaks to our heart.
Sr Kym Harris OSB |