Grandmother Sees Old House in the New House

A story is told about a family history. “In the late 1920s the grandparents married and moved into Grandpa’s old family home. It was a clapboard house with a hall down the middle. In the ’30s they decided to tear down the old house and build another to be their home for the rest of their lives. Much to the grandmother’s dismay, many of the materials of the old house were reused in their new house. They used old facings and doors, and many other pieces of the finishing lumber. Everywhere the grandmother looked, she saw that old house–old doors that wouldn’t shut properly, crown molding split and riddled with nail holes, unfinished window trimming. It was a source of grief to her. All her life she longed for a new house.” “When God brings us into the kingdom, the old way of living must be dismantled and discarded” (Lou Nicholes - Missionary/Author).