Building a Palace

I just read this quote on a friends blog and was impressed to include it on mine.  As I glance over at my new wing (Lauren) and actually (literally) getting a new house here soon, I feel very uncomfortable and unsettled.  It's nice to know that if I keep standing tall and strong, I will be more than I am now.  You've got to love progression even though it hurts a little at times.

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first perhaps, you can understnd what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of- throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity