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The Changing Seasons of Your Home
Thrive with Your Living Space Year-Round
Recently, I went coast to coast and noted the shifting seasons throughout the United States. Where I reside in California, we don’t really experience an autumn or winter. Yes, it goes down into the 40s, but it never freezes. Yes, we have a very short spring, but because it doesn’t freeze, we don’t have spring bulbs to enliven our pots and yards. What we do have is really good weather year-round and very scorching summers with no rain and no humidity to speak of. That would be 10 months of fine weather.
This typical for me led me to think about the seasons in our homes and how we prepare for each season in terms of décor, entertainment, and the expectations we as wives, moms, sisters, and leaders in our communities prepare for each season.
A wonderful friend of mine who has since gone on to glory, Devi Titus, often said this: “Home is where the heart is, and home is where faith begins.” Home is where we begin to educate and spread the seeds of religion to our children and grandchildren. We model what we want kids to see, learn, and mimic by reading our Bible, praying at meals, and helping others generously.
Remember the first day in your first house? Maybe it was an apartment, or maybe a townhouse, a cottage on a property from a friend, or…
