Thousands of people each year visit the Winchester Mansion in San Jose, California. This massive structure was built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of the gun company owner.
For 38 years, from 1884 until her death in 1922, the house
was under constant construction. Teams of carpenters, masons & other
workers were employed around the clock. Various stories have been told about
the reason for this unusual practice.
Most center on Mrs. Winchester’s belief that she either was
haunted or would be haunted by the ghosts of those killed by her husband’s
weapons unless she kept building her house. Others claim that she thought she
would not die as long as building continued.
Whatever the reason, she continued ordering more renovations
& construction as long as she lived. There are more than 10,000 windows in
the Winchester Mansion, doorways & stairs that lead to blank walls &
some 160 rooms in total.
It is estimated that she spent more than $70,000,000
in today’s money on largely pointless construction - all in a desperate search
for peace.
Many people today are seeking peace through equally
fruitless means. They turn to pleasure, drugs, alcohol, immorality, wealth
& other dead end avenues. Like the staircases that lead nowhere in the
Winchester Mansion, pursuing such paths will never bring peace.
Instead we find peace when we follow the path that God has
given us in His Word.
- (ministry127.com)
Ps 119:165 (ESV): “Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble.”
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