The Steward operates in a strange freedom.

One of the most surprising and yet satisfying experiences in my life as a steward happened this week.  My home, called the Blessing House, has been extremely significant in my life, because it was the one thing that I could depend on not changing.  I have had the privilege traveling the globe in missions to the Kenya, Tanzania, India and the Philipines plus many of the United States.  I could leave knowing I had a place to return that nurtured and cared for my needs because it was a source of joy.  Much of my life has been vested in a place that reflects who I am and has been the home-place of my family.  It has provided a safe, intact nest as we went through the deaths of two husbands and a son plus many other life changes.

Surprisingly, I am ready to leave this reality.  I no longer seem to require living here as a place of security and identity.  Over the past year, I have grieved and wondered if I was doing the right thing in building a new place in a different community.  Many others have wondered how I could ever leave such a beautiful and blessed setting on Lake Waconia. where all my needs were met and it required absolutely no faith to live here.

This week I showed my home to a family with three children because I need to sell it.  No trepidation at all in helping them imagine a life in this place....in fact, there was a joy that arose thinking that a family would find such a wonderful experience waiting for them.   This detachment and willingness to move tells me that I have truly become the Steward of all that I possess and not the owner.  It is the Master who has decided to move His Blessing House and has prepared me for the work.  "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God prepared in advance for us to do."  Eph. 2:10

This encourages me because I took comfort that The Blessing House was one thing I could depend on my whole life as being my place in the earth.  But, I have learned that The Lord is my safety place....and if He wants to move the Blessing to a new place, I do not want to be left behind.  The Steward's training must include many opportunities of letting go of things and people on which the steward depended on for life, peace and joy and comfort.

As the love deepens for the Master, ties with this world system - a co-dependency of a sort - begin to drop away.  A view of the greater reality of the unseen realm begins to take precedent over this physical world so the Steward gets to operate in a new freedom from the pressures so many earthlings face.