Setting areas up with a purpose in mind is one of my favourite things to do. I went into a home shop the other day and two ladies were shuffling furniture about, standing with their hands on their hips and their heads cocked to the side, and I thought to myself how lucky they were to have that pleasure for a job. I don’t get to do such things daily and my family would move out if I did (apparently not everyone finds it fun to create real-life still lifes.) However, every now and then we realise that our lives have changed and the seasons have turned, once again, to the point that we HAVE to rearrange. We must either create fresh spaces or suffer the consequences of a home that is not designed for our evolving needs.
We have one of those houses without a single built in cupboard and so every person in this family needs a wardrobe or chest of drawers to store all of their belongings in. Today, a cupboard arrived out of the blue – it seems to happen around here. I knew we needed one, and I have been looking for one – that’s why I was in that shop the other day – but I didn’t know that one would, simply, be offered to me when I least expected it. Not only did a cupboard arrive, but several bags of baby clothes to put into it!
My belly has swelled to the degree that there is absolutely no mistaking it. Another Robb is on the way and so another cupboard is most welcome. Where our house has been arranged to suit us wonderfully up to now, it’s time to make room for our newest member. I shouldn’t be lifting things and so the boys and their father have been very long-suffering with me, positioning pieces wherever I asked them to. Sometimes you have to see something in place before you realise it’s all wrong, and so I have asked very nicely all day for pieces that have already been moved to be moved to somewhere else. Everyone has been very gracious.
It has struck me this evening that we have to make room for new life. We cannot usher it in and squeeze it into a little corner; that will never do. We have a baby coming, and we are imagining all that he will need and making sure it is ready and waiting for him. Perhaps you are waiting for a longed-for prize or change or promise, and you are wondering what to do as the necessary time goes by. I imagine now would be a good time to add, take away or rearrange some things in your mind or heart or home. When all that you hope for has arrived, your hands will be full, and you will be thankful that you thought about such things when you had the time.
John 14 v 3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”
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