“God wants us to fill our homes with happiness. He made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny.”
“It is a crime to repress the mirth and the gladness and to try to make children grave and stately. Life’s burdens will come soon enough to lie upon their shoulders.”
“Life will soon enough bring care and anxiety and hardship and a weight of responsibility. We should let them be young and free from care just as long as possible.”
“We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine and gladness, just as much cheerful pleasure as possible. Human lives will never grow into their best in gloom.”
“Pour the sunshine about them in youth; let them be happy; encourage all innocent joy; provide pleasant games for them; romp and play with them; be a child again among them.”
“Then God’s blessing will come upon your home, and your children will grow up sunny-hearted, gentle, affectionate, joyous themselves and joy-bearers to the world.”
“The young must have amusements. The only question is, What shall be the character of the amusements?”
“If there is clover at the home they will not care to fly abroad.”
“There is no parent of ordinary intelligence who may not make his home-live so bright and sunny that no one will ever care to go outside to see amusement amid the senseless frivolities or the debasing pleasures that the world has to offer.”
“There is no need for argument to prove the influence of the home memories in the formation of character. When one’s childhood home has been true and sweet, its memories never can be effaced.”
“But the memory of the early home lives on like a solitary star, burning in the gloom of night.”
“Will the memory be tender, restraining, refining and inspiring?”
“It would seem worthwhile for every mother to try to weave such memories into the early years of her children’s lives. There is no surer way to bind them with chains of gold to God’s throne. Where is the busy mother who cannot find ti
me enough to spend thus a few moments every night with each child before it falls asleep, in sweet, loving talk and tender, earnest prayer? Far down into the years the memory of such sacred moments will go.”
“So the life of the true home flows on. It shelters us in the day of storm. Its friendships remain true and loyal. It lays holy hands of benediction upon our heads as we go out to meet life’s struggles and duties. It’s sacred influences keep us from many a sin. Its memories are our richest inheritance. Its inspirations are the secret strength of our lives in days of toil and care. Then it teaches us to look toward heaven as the great Home in which all our hearts, hopes, and dreams shall be realized, and where the broken ties of earth shall be reunited.”
All quotes from Home-making, by J.R. Miller
This is why we do what we do. It is so worth it.
They are all over the place. . . . . .and we haven’t seen any until today! I’m sure they’ll be gone in a few days. They better be!
Good to be Home 