Walk Through Inspection

We had an interesting day yesterday! Some friends are buying a log home and asked if we'd go with them to their walk through inspection! Because we live in a log home they thought we might notice something they would miss. What a beautiful home they're buying! It's the same age as ours, in the middle of a woods, has an attached garage, and it has a loft but that's where the similarities end. It's made of pine logs, ours are cedar. Being pine the logs are anywhere from 12 to 18 inches wide! They have a full basement, we have a crawl space. Theirs is twice the size of ours. Two bedrooms both on the main floor, we have one up and one down. Their loft is big enough for a separate room but it's all one: a great place for all the grandkids to sleep! Their stairway is very plain, ours is log and spiral! So we came home after inspecting a big, beautiful log home and discovered once again that we love our little log home! It's right for us. The other one didn't have the warm comfortable feeling when we walked in. I think ours does (I hope ours does) and I think, when our friends move into the other one that they'll give it a warm comfortable feeling. The folks who live there now really didn't have it furnished in a homey way. They did have some interesting antiques but it was more like going through a show piece, not an inviting home. So it was a very interesting day and we came home, not feeling envious of our friends, but happy for them, and feeling very good about our own home and loving it even more, if that's possible! Thank you, Lord, for the blessings You give us. Thank you for our log home, for giving us the strength to build it. Help us to keep it as a blessing to You. Help us to be hospitable and for folks coming in to know that we love and serve You. We love You, Lord, and we Praise You.