This story from NBC news(see article below) really hit home. My occupation as an Interior Designer affects the way people live and how their homes reflect their family “likes and dislikes”.
It is so much more than taste. It is about quality of life. What picture do we portray?
We work so hard to get our rooms looking “just right” and a child has a friend over and everything is askew! Family ties and relationships we share with each other are so much more lasting than the “perfect room”. Do we really care about the people who sit in the linen chairs putting the puzzle together?
It is so true what it says in the Psalms about how we build a home. It refers to the fact that “unless the LORD build the house we labor in vain”. The “things “ we acquire to take up “space” in the rooms we live in are not nearly as important as the people we TREASURE who occupy and congregate in the ROOMS.
This dad in the story built family time that will last when all the ROOMS TUMBLE.
Underneath the rubble he had built a lasting foundation with his kids that will last far longer than the “latest home DECORE”.
May we all take a closer look as situations crumble and fabrics “wear out” and get up close to the “ones we love”. If we were inside your FAMILY ROOM what would we VIEW?
Buried in Haiti rubble, U.S. dad wrote goodbyes
But with iPhone info, he treated his injuries and was rescued after 65 hours
The words on the pages of the plain black notebook are written in a semi-scrawl, punctuated by smears of blood — stark evidence of the desperation in which they were written.
Sitting with his wife, Christina, in Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dan Woolley showed the notebook to TODAY’s Meredith Vieira via satellite hookup Tuesday. Trapped for 65 hours under tons of wreckage in the lobby of his hotel by Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake and knowing he could die, Woolley had written notes to his two young boys and his wife.
“I always wanted to survive, but I knew that was something that I couldn’t control. So I decided if I had to go, I wanted to leave some last notes for them,” Woolley said. Opening the book and fighting his emotions, he read an entry he addressed to his sons, Josh, 6, and Nathan, 3:
“I was in a big accident. Don’t be upset at God. He always provides for his children, even in hard times. I’m still praying that God will get me out, but He may not. But He will always take care of you.”
‘Boy, I cried’
Woolley had taken refuge in an elevator shaft, where he used an iPhone first-aid app to treat a compound fracture of his leg and a cut on his head. He had already used his digital SLR camera’s focusing light to illuminate his surroundings, and taken pictures of the wreckage to help find a safe place to wait to be rescued — or to die.
Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t easy, the deeply religious man said.
“Boy, I cried,” he admitted. “Obviously, no one wants to come to that point. I also didn’t want to just get found after having some time — God gave me some time — to think and to pray and to come to grips with the reality. I wanted to use that time to do everything I could for my family. If that could be surviving, get out, then I would. If it could be just to leave some notes that would help them in life, I would do that.”
Woolley had been working for Compassion International, a mission organization, making a film about the impact of poverty on the people of Haiti. He and a colleague, David Hames, had just returned to the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince from a day of filming when the earthquake struck.......
finish reading -- http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34933053/ns/today-today_people/
We work so hard to get our rooms looking “just right” and a child has a friend over and everything is askew! Family ties and relationships we share with each other are so much more lasting than the “perfect room”. Do we really care about the people who sit in the linen chairs putting the puzzle together?
It is so true what it says in the Psalms about how we build a home. It refers to the fact that “unless the LORD build the house we labor in vain”. The “things “ we acquire to take up “space” in the rooms we live in are not nearly as important as the people we TREASURE who occupy and congregate in the ROOMS.
This dad in the story built family time that will last when all the ROOMS TUMBLE.
Underneath the rubble he had built a lasting foundation with his kids that will last far longer than the “latest home DECORE”.
May we all take a closer look as situations crumble and fabrics “wear out” and get up close to the “ones we love”. If we were inside your FAMILY ROOM what would we VIEW?
Buried in Haiti rubble, U.S. dad wrote goodbyes
But with iPhone info, he treated his injuries and was rescued after 65 hours
The words on the pages of the plain black notebook are written in a semi-scrawl, punctuated by smears of blood — stark evidence of the desperation in which they were written.
Sitting with his wife, Christina, in Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dan Woolley showed the notebook to TODAY’s Meredith Vieira via satellite hookup Tuesday. Trapped for 65 hours under tons of wreckage in the lobby of his hotel by Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake and knowing he could die, Woolley had written notes to his two young boys and his wife.
“I always wanted to survive, but I knew that was something that I couldn’t control. So I decided if I had to go, I wanted to leave some last notes for them,” Woolley said. Opening the book and fighting his emotions, he read an entry he addressed to his sons, Josh, 6, and Nathan, 3:
“I was in a big accident. Don’t be upset at God. He always provides for his children, even in hard times. I’m still praying that God will get me out, but He may not. But He will always take care of you.”
‘Boy, I cried’
Woolley had taken refuge in an elevator shaft, where he used an iPhone first-aid app to treat a compound fracture of his leg and a cut on his head. He had already used his digital SLR camera’s focusing light to illuminate his surroundings, and taken pictures of the wreckage to help find a safe place to wait to be rescued — or to die.
Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t easy, the deeply religious man said.
“Boy, I cried,” he admitted. “Obviously, no one wants to come to that point. I also didn’t want to just get found after having some time — God gave me some time — to think and to pray and to come to grips with the reality. I wanted to use that time to do everything I could for my family. If that could be surviving, get out, then I would. If it could be just to leave some notes that would help them in life, I would do that.”
Woolley had been working for Compassion International, a mission organization, making a film about the impact of poverty on the people of Haiti. He and a colleague, David Hames, had just returned to the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince from a day of filming when the earthquake struck.......
finish reading -- http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34933053/ns/today-today_people/
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