A Decent Place to Live

Many communities are privileged to have a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. I've done various Habitat for Humanity work since 1990. About 15 years ago I began the work of establishing a Habitat affiliate in southern Indiana, Perry County to be precise. The work was demanding; the six years I spent as founder and then the first president of that organization still feel like some of the best years of my pastoral life. I want to focus some of our devotional life on “A Decent Place to Live” because our present economic realities may start pushing the world to have an increasingly more precise picture of what “a decent place” might look like.

Seems quite clear to me that everyone deserves a simple, decent place to call their own,
Helps the self-esteem, and let's feelings dance while new responsibilities are grown.

If we band together and commit our time and talents to build a house that can become a home,
Then everyone senses deepened awareness of how God's eternal presence can be known.

--Ben Keckler
05.12.09