Jimbo's Jots

Here is a rabbinical story of how God chose the spot for His temple. Two brothers worked a common field and common mill, splitting the day’s profits between the two. The one brother was single, the other married with a large family. The single brother decided that his married brother needed more grain than he did since he had a large family. So each night, he would secretly creep over and add extra to his brother’s granary. Meanwhile, the married brother concerned over his brother’s future since he did not have children, would get up secretly each night to put extra grain the single brother’s granary.

One night as each was walking to his brother’s house in the night, they met halfway. They both quickly realized what the other was doing. They embraced. As the story goes, God, seeing this said, “This is a holy place — a place of love — and it is here my temple shall be built . . . [it is] the place where human beings discover each other in love.”

Holy places can be created in the every day. When we have husbands or wives live in a way in which God’s love is proclaimed in this home. It is seen in the husband that demonstrates sacrificial love to his wife. It is demonstrated by the wife seeking not her own desires but to reach out to her husband.

Holy places can be created in the every day. When parents who fashion a home in which their kids know that God’s love is proclaimed, it becomes a testimony of God. When parents spend time with their kids and also teach and show Godlike qualities, it generates a family that honors God.

Holy places can be created in the every day. When we choose to invest in our employer and its people, we bring with us a holy place. When we seek to do good for the company by our actions, we honor the “holy place” we have placed in.

Holy places can be created in the every day. Let us be reminded that God will build “His temple” in the places where we reach out to others in love.

Be blessed and be a blessing!