We are all building something

"This is our house, and this is the path, and this is the Blue Pyramids," she told me. "Do you like it?" She asks because she knows what I'll say and she wants to hear it.

"I love it," I said. She's always building something. She takes paper and scissors and constructs animals with tape. She takes markers and draws worlds of people, houses, snakes, worms, and birds. Sometimes there are planes, sometimes the people have babies strapped to their chests.

Today she built with Lego. She built our house, with our garden, and a path, and the Blue Pyramids, a beach shack restaurant nearby.

She builds the things that are around us.



Some people build houses for other people. Right now we have construction going on on our rooftop, where men are building a meditation space for us and people we meet.



I am building a story, and a book, and a body of work. I am building a family, and I am building a home with fresh flowers and tablecloths and curtains.

My husband is building songs from rhythms and notes that come to him, it seems to me out of the blue.

Leafy builds towers, then knocks them down.

Kid A builds Star Wars ships from K'nex.

Sometimes we build sand castles, and then the tide comes and carries them off. We can't build ourselves a wall big enough to keep us safe, but we are always building a community to love and to love us back.

We are all building something.

Comments

[blackbird]

Thank you for reminding me.

[Tj]

I love it!

[Cat]

Wonderful post!

[Noha]

Beautiful as always. The reminders are helpful when we feel like we aren't building anything because we can't SEE what we're building. But we always are... sometimes we can smell it and feel it instead of seeing it.

[abs]

This is a lovely post

abs x

[Britt]

You are so strong. And appreciative.

[Cristal]

We can’t build ourselves a wall big enough to keep us safe, but we are always building a community to love and to love us back.

I was just thinking this. There has been alot of crime in Ktown lately, and as a mom it is so easy to give into fear on so many different levels, but building a community of love, that is what I want my life to be about.

[Susan]

How true! We are all building something, but as for me, I am trying to build a strong foundation for my family - daily. Thank you for this wonderful post.

Susan
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[Beth]

Beautifully said!

[Shelly]

I've often looked at commonalities that people of different cultures and backgrounds have, knowing that we are all made in His image. Everyone builds and creates, laughs, loves - more glimpses of God!

[Lulu]

Thanks Rae!