Porches

I love front porches. We had one when I was a kid growing up. Porches are places to pontificate. Front porches are mostly non-existent today and so are the conversations they fostered.

I was thinking about porches today. Here's what came to my mind...

"If you can't run with the big dogs, then stay on the porch."

“Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.”

“The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.”

Here's my favorite...

"Don't live on the porch and think you are in the house."

Francois Fenelon wrote those words in the late 1690's. Insightfully he suggested that many people today never delve deeper into matters of faith. They are content to "live on the porch" and never "enter into the house."

"Enter with the password: "Thank you!" Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him. " Psalm 100:4 (The Message)

As a kid I often heard these words...."Get in the house!" Today I am hearing my Father say, "Get in the house!"

There is a big difference between "porch-sitting" and "house-dwelling."

Where are you sitting these days?