THE institutions which have most to do with molding our characters and determining our experiences are church and home. These do not compete with but complement each other. The church, of course, has to do with our relationship to God, while home concerns itself mainly with our relationship to the world. These relationships are coincidental; our relationship to God being primary, it rightly takes precedence over our relationship to each other. As we love God supremely, our attitude toward each other will bind us together harmoniously in selfless devotion.
It is helpful to realize that an edifice is no more church than a house is home, although both edifice and house serve a purpose. We worship together in an edifice just as we live together in a house, but church is more than edifice and home is more than house. Homemaking and housekeeping are, of course, closely related but distinct in their very nature.
Living with others may not have been our choice, but how we live with them is our responsibility. Then too there is a difference between merely living with and living for. When we seek to be helpful, our relationship with others is selfless, and spirituality alone promotes this selflessness. Materiality induces selfishness.
