When It All Came Tumbling Down

     Our group focused mainly on The House of Cards section.  In it, we found that the author's little brother is either very sick or has cancer.  He is treated like a very fragile little china doll, as their mother habitually passes by the door looking in to make sure nothing's wrong.  He is so cared for that the author is always left alone with his brother.  In response to passing the time, they both would go to the "Spartan Room."  Although this room is small and enclosed, surrounded by four walls, this room is where they lose track of time the most.  It's a small room, but the imagination has no limits.
     House of the future, dream house, dog house, house of cards, house on fire, bringing down the house, house call, the house of God.  From these titles of each section, you can easily see a pattern.  From a dream house to a house where many only ever show up because of a death (church).  I think that if many of us start with the house of God, we won't have to end with it.  Like a house of cards, each with four corners, all a small step to something bigger; the greater the inevitable fall, a house of cards.
     In conclusion, we all will get to that point in our lives one way or another; whether it's being born with a terminal illness, or reaching old age.  We all come to the conclusion that death is around the corner, we then start wondering about the afterlife.  I guess we all need a "Spartan Room" of our own.  Mine, is Jesus.  He rebuilds ruins, restores broken homes, and shows me how limiting our imaginations can truly be.

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 
to know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above ALL that we Ask or Think or Imagine (Spartan Room), according to the power that works in us... (Ephesians 3:14-20, NKJV)

Our Prayers.  Our Thoughts.  Our Imaginations.
They do not limit our God.
They set standards, sure, but only to be gloriously broken.
They only provoke Him into showing us up.
It's His way of displaying how great He truly is.
And that is what lives inside of us, God.  (Ephesians 3:20, ME)

When it all comes tumbling down, just know that God will be waiting.