Peace Be to This House
Luke 10:5Hallway
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Somebody set a lamp on the step
From the far end of the hall you see the shape of it before the detail: two figures still coming up the road, a household already out on the stone, and one small gold lamp set down where the light can reach whoever is still walking. No face is given to anyone. The door stands open behind them.
Living with it, the welcome happens twice. Once when you come in with bags on both arms, and once when you hold the door for someone else and the picture has already said the thing you meant to say. It is silent, and better than words.
People read it differently. One guest sees two travellers arriving and a household stepping out to meet them. Another sees only the small lamp set on the step for whoever is coming up the road. A third hears a greeting spoken before anyone has crossed the threshold, and asks you about it with her coat still on. Nobody reads it as a slogan, which is rather the point: the hall looks like a home that keeps a seat spare.
The lamp finds them first
The light is not in the windows here. It is in the small lamp on the step, and it reaches the two travellers before anyone has said a word. They are still one stride from the door. The household is already out on the stone, leaning toward them. I keep looking at that gap, the handspan of air between the hand held out and the hand coming to meet it.
Nothing has happened yet. Everything is about to. I hope whoever lives with this looks up on an ordinary evening, coat half off, and feels the room lean toward her the way the figures lean toward the road.
The one who moves in, and the one who brings it
One of them is unlocking a door that is finally hers. The boxes are still in the van and the rooms echo a little, and before anything else she walks them with her husband, blesses the house and gives it to God for his use. She wants the first word said here to be peace, and the first thing on the wall to say it too.
The other is going to a housewarming and does not want to turn up with one more candle. She watched her friend wait a long time for these keys. More prayers said in a house cannot hurt, and this is the kind of gift that is still up when the flowers have gone.
It hangs in the hallway above the coat pegs, on the entry wall where everyone turns to take a coat off, 45x60 cm framed.
What arrives at the door
- Giclee print Printed right to the edge of the sheet, matte and quiet, no shine under a hallway light.
- 170 gsm paper Matte uncoated for the unframed sheet, coated silk inside the frame.
- Black wood frame, 12 mm Flat square profile 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, the print running to the inner edge.
- Three sizes 12x16, 18x24 and 24x32 in. The 45x60 cm sits well on an entry wall above a row of pegs.
What people ask about this one
1.What does peace be to this house mean in Luke 10?
2.What Bible verse do you say when blessing a new home?
3.What is a good Christian housewarming gift?
4.Where should I hang a print like this in a hallway?
On the wall before the boxes are opened
Pick the size for the wall by your front door, framed in black wood or as a single sheet, and let the hallway do the greeting.
