The Root Called Home Lets a Person Grow

answered by Psalm 127

기원전 편찬(지혜 시편)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

dir. Ingmar Bergman · Sweden

A child enjoys laughter and festivity in a large family's warm home, then loses his father and is moved into a cold world. The childhood home, mingling warmth and loss, safety and fear, shapes his entire world. How are we to carry the root that made us?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Do I forget how much the warmth and wounds of my childhood home shaped the person I am now?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it.

💡 TL;DR

The Psalm said that unless a house is built upon the meaning of its source, the labor is in vain.

📝The Classic Answers

The Psalm said that unless a house is built upon the meaning of its source, the labor is in vain. To a person, home is not walls and a roof but a root into which the warmth and fear of early days have soaked together. That house, mingling a large family's laughter and quarrels, loss and comfort, makes a child's world. I left that home on becoming an adult, yet within me the light and shadow of those years still live. That root — neither all good nor all bad — made the person I am. I choose neither to gild nor to deny my root, but to accept it as the place that formed me. Only one who knows their root knows where to go.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Recall your childhood home, and accept, with gratitude, one scene from those years that made the person you are.

📖 Classic Source: Psalm 127. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.