Alanna shares her growing awareness of the overlap between the inner and outer world, which has been drawn into focus for her through the act of building a house. It seems that striving for permanence in the world of decay has brought her to embrace the possibilities for infinite growth and rejuvenation in a world known only to the heart. -Editor.

Garth and I are building a house. I keep moving back and forth between the natural reality and effort involved in constructing a dwelling place, and the spiritual or metaphorical implications inherent in this act.

In True Christianity 89, the concept of home is used as a simile for the goal of regeneration -

The Lord's life followed this path because the divine design is for people to prepare themselves to accept God; and as they prepare themselves, God enters them as if he were coming into his own dwelling and his own home."