I often look at buildings and feel a little cold, not in the temperature sense, but they seem to lack character. Perhaps it is because I feel that new, is not always better. Old has a beauty, and warmth of it’s own that cannot be duplicated.
Grandma’s house was quite unique. The top half of the interior walls and the ceiling, were Hessian covered with wallpaper. As the air currents on the outside of the house moved, so did the walls. On one side the walls would balloon a little, and the opposing side would be sucked tight against the timber framework. You could say that the little cottage had real character.
We commenced our training at The Salvation Army’s Melbourne Training College on Victoria Parade. This was a lovely old building with plenty of character, and some called it ‘the real College’. At the commencement of our second year a ten-storey motel was purchased in Royal Parade, Parkville. Renovations were not completed prior to our Commissioning in the January of 1980. There was a loss of the sense of history of all who had trained in these walls, knelt in these halls, cried, rejoiced, and signed their Covenant in the Lord’s presence. We were charting new waters, and we were the foundation stones that the new character of this structures history was being built on.
Joshua 4:9 (NIV)
Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.
Grandma’s house was quite unique. The top half of the interior walls and the ceiling, were Hessian covered with wallpaper. As the air currents on the outside of the house moved, so did the walls. On one side the walls would balloon a little, and the opposing side would be sucked tight against the timber framework. You could say that the little cottage had real character.
We commenced our training at The Salvation Army’s Melbourne Training College on Victoria Parade. This was a lovely old building with plenty of character, and some called it ‘the real College’. At the commencement of our second year a ten-storey motel was purchased in Royal Parade, Parkville. Renovations were not completed prior to our Commissioning in the January of 1980. There was a loss of the sense of history of all who had trained in these walls, knelt in these halls, cried, rejoiced, and signed their Covenant in the Lord’s presence. We were charting new waters, and we were the foundation stones that the new character of this structures history was being built on.
Joshua 4:9 (NIV)
Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.
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