Article January 8, 1990 Issue

"An house not made with hands"

Sometimes it's only when we lose sight of something that we see it anew.

Mabel Constance Tressilian

I've found that there is indeed "and house not made with hands,"^{II Cor. 5:1.} as St Paul says. Oddly enough, I found this true only after losing my home.

During World War II, air raids were frequent, including heavy bombing. One night a bomb struck our house. I had already lost my husband, and now my home was gone too.

Physical injuries soon healed, but I was in anguish. I felt I had lost everything. We were homeless. My family was far away, and travel was so disrupted by the war that it was impossible to get to them. My daughter was a baby, totally dependent on me, and now I was quite alone.

Send a comment to the editors