The past 5 days I have been without a computer. It has been a little freeing. Most of us don’t remember a time that there
weren’t computers that took over our daily lives. A Time when facebook, TV, Pinterest, MySpace (back in the day),
IM or some type of technology didn’t dominate our every waking minute. My husband and I have been re-doing our
floors. Tearing up the carpet and
putting down hard wood laminate flooring which is looking AMAZING if I do say
so myself. During this time, our home
has been a disaster area. All this
time, I Am also throwing a bridal shower for a friend of mine tomorrow
too.
First, I just want to say that it is physically demanding to
actually move all the furniture, take off the trim, tear up carpet, move said
carpet, pull up the carpet pad and all the staples to which they were a little
over excited about when laying our carpet, then sweeping, laying a different
pad, putting down the tongue and groove laminate and trying so hard to get it
to fit around doors and corners and finally re-applying the trim. I get tiered just writing it! We have officially done one room. One room of the 4 we are working on is done,
and it just happens to be the smallest room!
The second room is very close to being done, we have to re-apply the
trim and the third room should have the floor laid tonight if not the trim
finished. All the rooms are attached
together. I have gained a lot of
respect for people that do this sort of thing for a living. I of course have looked at this as an
opportunity to paint the walls also…
YEAH….
Second, doing anything when your house is in shambles and
looks like hoarderville is incredibly difficult. I can’t tell you how difficult it has been for me having to turn
sideways to walk through certain areas of my home where displaced furniture is
waiting to be put back. My children
have been eating meals from the freezer, or cereal for many of their
meals. I haven’t had a computer so the
bridal shower things haven’t been going together as they should, and frankly,
just WHAT A MESS!!!!
So, how does one take this and find the golden nugget in
this situation? Well, God has really
been revealing to me that when He is working on certain areas of my life,
things might be difficult, things might not be comfortable and I might not get
everything that I set out to get accomplished done. My life might be displaced and misplaced with saw dust EVERYWHERE
(seriously, everywhere!) but, the end result is so much better than I could
have imagined. It is hard work, but
totally worth it. My home is finally
feeling more home like to me, and if God needs to work on certain areas of my
life to make it more home like for Him, then I should let Him because the end
result is awesome.
Philippians 2 is an awesome chapter of the Bible, as most of
the chapters in the Bible are. I loved
verse 13 in that book; “for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and
to work for His good pleasure.”
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