Your Going Out and Coming In
Psalm 121:8Hallway
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One roof still bright at the end of the day
Come closer and the valley sorts itself out. Small houses with the shutters already shut, a tower no taller than the rest, hills folded behind them in the last of the light. One roof is gold. A track runs down out of the hills, bends twice, and ends at a door.
In the name of Jesus Christ, bless this home and protect our family: you said something like that in the empty rooms, before the boxes came in. The scene keeps it in the hall for you. It is there when the door opens in the morning and there when it closes at night, and you stop having to say it out loud.
Everyone reads it differently. A village at the end of the day with one roof still bright, said the sister who helped carry the lamps in. Someone else sees only the track coming down from the hills, and where it stops. A friend who does not come to church saw a person out walking while the house waits for them, and stood in front of it a while. None of them is wrong, and the reference underneath is the only thing they share. It makes the entry read like a house where somebody prays, before anyone says so.
I keep looking at the one lit roof
From up here the village is small. You could hold it under a thumb. The hills stand behind it with the evening already on them, and the track comes down out of that dark in long slow bends. One roof is still lit. I look at it longer than anything else, because it is the only thing in the whole valley that is waiting.
There is a figure out on the path, far off, small as a seed. I do not know whether they are leaving or coming back, and I like that I do not know. What I hope is that whoever lives with this map finds their own door somewhere in it, and finds it lit, whichever direction they are walking.
Two people buy this one, and they buy it for the same door
One has the keys in her hand. The boxes are still in the kitchen, the hall is bare, and she has already walked the rooms praying, quietly, by herself. What she wants is for the entry to hold that prayer permanently, after the tape and the bubble wrap are gone.
The other is a sister, a small group, or a husband in November who wants something that will look right by her door without guessing at her taste. She has said it herself: I truly do not want stuff, I have everything I need. This is not stuff. It is the thing she already prays, hanging where she will pass it twice a day.
It sits above the console by the door, 45x60 cm framed, at the height where you look up while finding your keys; if another piece already hangs further along that wall, the two read as one journey.
What arrives at your door
- 170 gsm matte uncoated paper Print only: a single sheet, printed to its edges, no shine under a hallway light.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 12x16 in / 30x40 cm, 18x24 in / 45x60 cm, 24x32 in / 60x80 cm.
What people ask before it goes on the wall
1.What bible verse is good for a new home?
2.What does the lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in mean?
3.What is a good christian housewarming gift that is not a sign?
4.Which size works above a hallway console?
Pick the size the wall by your door is asking for
Framed or print only, in three sizes, with the valley and the one lit roof ready for the hall you have just started living in.
