In the poem "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666," the author expresses no anger or ill will at God for allowing the home she has lived in for so long to be destroyed by fire. She actually expresses thankfulness to God for allowing this physical destruction to occur.

The reason she feels no animosity towards God is that she knows He caused this act to happen to teach her lessons and remind her of things that living in a materialistic world had made her forget. One of those lessons is that God is the true possessor of all things in the world and, as such, that He has the right to give and to take what he wishes. She also realizes her own vanity and understands the fact that in spite of her home's destruction, she still has all she needs to survive.

Most important of all, she realizes that her focus should not be on the home she lived in on earth but instead on the heavenly home she will be brought to live in if she is a faithful servant to God. In short, she understands that in the end, all things of this world will perish and that only her soul will live on eternally. The author understands that God's action of causing her house to be destroyed was His way of making her realize the true place where her heart and her thoughts should lie.