Demolition

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” – 1 Corinthians 13:11

We had been married less than a year when we bought a 100-year-old house to remodel. The main issue was that the home was sinking. Someone had installed tile in a bathroom by pouring a cement slab between the floor joists. It was so heavy that it was pulling the house down.  When we finished this demolition project, I was in the basement staring up through the floor joists at a disheartened Katie balling. She could not see how to move forward, I could not see how to move forward either.

A lot of people are “deconstructing” their faith. They are pulling apart the beliefs that have become problematic, and they are struggling to see how to move forward

After tearing out all the concrete and moldy dry wall, we started building back. The floor joists were raised back up, bracing, and new footings were built to support them. We put down new subfloor and redid the walls. New tile (weight appropriate this time) was laid, and the walls were painted. This became one of the most beautiful rooms in the house.

This was the home that we became a family in. Those things that were destroying the house had to be torn out. Yet, if we had not rebuilt, we would not have been able to live there.

We pick up wrong belief, sometimes through trauma, or bad teaching. Those things must go, but we cannot just leave them broken and gutted. We must rebuild our faith.