As I was speaking on the phone with someone the Holy Spirit quickened me. 

I was speaking about raising children. We’ve had three children and they are grown and I was now raising my brother’s girls, both teenagers, both precious. 

Sometimes I become weary in the days. Like anyone does. Sometimes it seems I come to the end of my patience and ability to give love.

Often, I come to the end of myself.

There is new ground, weariness, and not knowing what to do.

But the Holy Spirit quickened me, it is in this, the hardships that we go through, that I see Love- Jesus' Love- so much more.

 My good times are in my hard times.  My happiest times are in my trials.

   Because it is in my weakness that I see Jesus so much more.   He comes to the foreground of my life and I lives.  Yet not I, but the Lord, by His Holy Spirit, Who lives in me.

Jesus Christ,  is my joy, and that Joy is made perfect in trials and weakness, and it is from Him and is Him there with me.

My trials now become my delight. 

“ My strength is made perfect in weakness”, the Lord said.
This came to mind as I thought on my relationship with my family and the girls.  

 As I saw the trials and hardness of life’s day to day pressures that so easily wear me down to where I have no strength myself to keep giving, …and I see Jesus.

I see Him and He is Love building this House right alongside my trials only the house He’s building,  these day to day trials can’t compare.

The house I see on this side-the weary times, not knowing what to do many times, life's pressures- the hardships-

they are truly nothing in comparison to the House I see Him building in Him in the Eternal.

There, He is building it with His love, His compassion, His peace.  Whatever is needed, He becomes for our trials.  And they are the precious building blocks that make a real difference in the lives of others.  Something of value.  True Eternal value, from Him to us and to those around us. 

To my girls, my family, or my friends, it is to see Him, in the day to day, knowing that it is not me, but Him there, helping us.  He is truly our Helper.

These little trials are nothing in comparison to the House Jesus Christ is building.

And as surely as we have ask Him into our heart and lives, and as surely as trials and hardships come, just as surely the Lord is building His house helping us through each trial that we face, large or small.

I thought, this is the House that Love built.

He built it in the Eternal and it is Him and it will endure time and all that comes and it is Him and in Him. The House that Love built.  

He’s building it here, right now, in my family.

It is His Love. Him. It is His love, Him loving the girls, building in them and me, His Love.

  Him showing love to my family, and giving Himself to them, that they might be built up, healed, encouraged, grow.  Him smiling on them, and on me!

It is more than a relationship, it is Him. And, yet, it is also a relationship.

We share His life. It is a relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

We come in to Him and oh, how nothing these day to day things become.

Rather, we rejoice, and we like Paul, glory in our weaknesses and rejoice in our trials or sufferings, because  Jesus has opened to us a vision of the Eternal and it is there we ever long to build and dwell and it’s maker and builder is God.

And it is Him that we see, in our day to day trials.  Building in the lives of others and ourselves with His own Love.

Hebrews 11:10 (For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.)