How in the world is it March 3rd? I’m in denial because I actually skipped January. 🙂   A nasty battle with influenza kept me bed and couch ridden for about 4 weeks.  At first, all I did was sleep, but after a week or so way to dozing, getting up only for necessities, and watching HGTV. More HGTV than anyone should be allowed to watch. 😉

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I’ll admit it.  I’m an HGTV addict.  There is such a “rush” watching something dilapidated become transformed into something beautiful.  I never get tired of watching the process yielding the final result.   From Property Brothers to Love it or List It, to Fixer Upper or My Big House, to Income Property or Holmes on Homes. The similarity of their mission stokes my creative fires.  Jeff says, “You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.”  Gotta disagree babe. 😉

As I watch, I’m caught up in the excitement.  I want to do what they do.  Take something broken and make it beautiful.  It always surprises me how each and every project is unique and the outcome is amazingly different and exquisite.

On Netflix, I found I could watch series after series without commercial interruption!  Holy Moley! Can you say mother lode of my deep need to see “happily ever after”?

One new to me series I fell in love with was Rehab Addict. (can you say obsession 🙂 )  I found myself drawn to Nicole Curtis, a single mom whose passion is to buy old, abandoned homes. Tirelessly, she hunts for ramble shack, broken-down, decaying homes.  She’s drawn to damaged and neglected homes and compelled to restore them to their former glory.

She doesn’t just gut and remodel.  She painstakingly restores each and every room.  Leaving the original “everything” as much as possible and revitalizing it to be everything it was built to be.

She’s a rehab addict.  And as I watched her passion and dedication to old houses, a flash- a deep knowing exploded in my little brain.

An addict, by definition is one who is devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something; obsessed and given over to-

“Why, God is a Rehab Addict”.  I realized. He’s wholly given over  is to rescue and restore. “I’ve been gutted by life.  Demolished and damaged.  I felt like I should just be torn down because I wasn’t really a “house” anymore. But God bought me.  He saved me from destruction.  He is committed to my full and complete restoration!  And He’s doing it room by room!”

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But God! He is the Master of all Rehab and Restoration Architects. I think it’s only amazing that Jesus’ earthly job was a carpenter! 🙂

He is on the hunt for anyone who is broken down and in need of restoration and/or transformation.  God looked down and saw my decaying, ramshackle of a life.  With His Designer’s Eye, He looked through my messiness and visioned my transformation. His skill and tender care began the work of reconstructing my “house” to it’s intended beauty.  And He’s not done with me yet! He won’t take short cuts.  He’s committed to my full restoration.

And God!

He sees individual potential and inherent beauty in each and every person He’s made.  The Creator is drawn to His broken-down creation and His compassion compels Him to restore them to their former glory.  He doesn’t just gut and remodel.  He painstakingly restores every area of our lives.  He doesn’t destroy our identity or make us over to look like everyone else.  Instead, He revitalizes and renews the old to become new.

God lives and loves to REHAB His people.  He’s “addicted”to making all things new.

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Surprising Treasures: Colossions 1:20 Amplified

²⁰ And God purposed that through (^[q]by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled ^[r]back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.

John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

New International Version
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,

New American Standard Bible
“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

New Living Translation Revelation 21:5
And the One sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then He said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”