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it is the tone of the home life, that is important.

We should make it pure, elevating, refining, inspiring. 

The books we bring in, 
the papers and magazines, 
the guests we have at our tables and admit to our firesides, 
the home conversation, 
the pictures we hang on our walls
--all these are educational.  

The religious influences are also vitally important. In that first 'garden home', the Lord came and went as a familiar friend. Christ must be our guest, if our home is to be a fit place either for our children or for ourselves. If there is no sincere prayer in it, it is not a true home at all--it is only a heathen lodging-place!
How can we make 'new Edens' of our homes? What are some of the secrets of home happiness? I might gather them all into one word and say, CHRIST! If we have Christ as our guest, our home will be happy! He must be welcomed into all our life. He must be in each heart.must sit at our tables and mingle with us in all our family interaction. Christ can bless our home, only through the lives of those who make the home circle.

JR Miller 

It is a daily struggle to focus on this. I can get so caught up in the goings and happenings that I don't even think about the whys and glories. May Christ be the center of our home.

*pictured: homemade banana bread in a sweet heart-shaped pan, with flowers picked by my dear Elizabeth

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