Rumor has it there is a support beam someplace in my kitchen, soon to be discovered in the remodel process.   Yep .. I’m not done with the lessons, or the metaphors from this project!  So bear with me for as long as the remodel goes on 🙂

Interesting things, support beams.   Without them the whole structure would sag, or worse yet crumble.  And yet from the outside, we don’t often know where they are, nor are we always even aware that they exist.  But we all have them, and we all need them.  Unsung, they do their thing .. keeping our homes strong, straight and in integrity.  I’d not want to try to live in a house without them, nor ignore them in remodel plans.

You and I have support beams in our lives, too.  Those things that, although we don’t always give them the time of day, are doing their job to keep us strong, straight and in integrity.  We may not always be aware of what is holding us up, but rest assured that when we experience any major remodeling in life -like happens when we go thru health, relationship, work or financial changes,  we will be grateful for our support beams.   It is at those times that we especially need to be sure that we keep our support beams in tact.

So what are the support beams in your life.  Are there essential relationships that sure you up?   Support of family, of friends?  How about our awareness of the Divine?  That surely is a support beam in our lives. 

If you are remodeling, ( and how is not!), give some extra time to considering what lifts you, what holds you up no matter what.  I call those things “sacred structures” of my life.  They are the relationships and practices that have to be held inviolate in order to provide the fundamental support beams of life that make everything else work.

Happy remodeling.

You are Precious. You are Awesome.

Rev. Kristin