"Spaces in our lives..."

This is from a writing by John Ruskin which has a very helpful truth, and a reminder about those times when there are spaces in our lives which seem empty and silent:
"There is not music in a rest, but there is making of music in it.  In our whole life-melody, the music is broken off here and there by 'rests', and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time.  God sends a time of forced  leisure - sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts - and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator.  How does the musician read the rest?  See him beat time with unvarying count and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between.  Not without design does God write the music of our lives.  But be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the 'rests.'  They are not to be slurred over, nor to be omitted, nor to destroy the melody, nor to change the keynote.  If we look up, God Himself will beat time for us.  With an eye on Him, we shall strike the next note, full and clear."

Throughly furnished...

2 Tim. 3:17, "That the man of God may be throughly furnished unto all good works."
It is NOT thoroughly, but THROUGHLY, which expresses the idea of something or someone who is permeated totally through and through.  It is saying God is in the process of fully imparting and saturating our lives so that every part of our beings - SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY - in the depths and core of all we are, is to be INDWELT BY HIM, inside and out, every nook and cranny, NO place in this "house" that is not furnished to the uttermost by HIM.  Nothing left of Adam or the earthly control, all is in place, all done to the utmost perfection BY Him, and FOR Him, and THROUGH Him, and TO Him.
This is what GOD IS DOING in each of us.
Yes, we are His temple, a temple not made with hands, a living temple, corporate, the ecclesia.  NEVER again will God  have His rest in a house made of stone and mortar. (Which thought, which truth, brings into question all those buildings we call "churches" which most certainly ARE made of "stone and mortar.")
Jesus Christ as the house, the resting place of God, is the CENTRAL POINT of scripture.
Amen.