This year with a little help from our tax return we decided to do a few improvements. A few things that were cheap but exciting!
I felt like with this being a new season of hope and trust and dreaming big; so we needed to create that space in our home.
We pulled up the white (dirty) carpet. I scraped the concrete as clean as I could. Our new floors will have to wait on funds and we are still deciding on paint color for the walls but with spray paint, a few accessories and a little elbow grease and we have beautiful updated room.
Tonight I was thinking why did we wait so long to do such a simple and fun project?! It ended up so beautiful. I think honesty I got comfortable and as much as I desired something new and fresh I got comfortable with the old. How often do we desire a change, something new but we allow ourselves to stay because of the work it takes to change.
Maybe the fear of failure? Or the fear of not liking the new?! How often do we desire new but aren't willing to actually step out of our box and go for it? I want to be skinner but I don't want to go to the gym. I want to be a photographer but I don't want to fail so I don't buy a camera? I want to have friendships but have been so hurt in so many friendships that I stopped believing that friendships were possible?
We have been in this house for 4 years. It took four years for me to start painting. And planning a future. I desired to have a home to be comfortable and beautiful for my family and others, but was so worried to get it wrong that I just stayed where I was. I stayed with things I didn't like- just because I knew it. It was safe. I had gotten use to things I did not like and yet change was not comfortable.
Well God started taking me out of my comfortable box. He has been whispering to me a lot about being uncomfortable.
"Get use to be being comfortable with being uncomfortable" He has clearly stated a few times.
What?!? That makes no common sense. But what I have learned is that God does not make mistakes. He does not want us to be miserable or lacking so if we get comfortable we could be missing out on the good plans He has for us.
So if we get use to change, and get use to stepping out on faith; get use to some things being uncomfortable -He can move and allow things to be a blessing. He can change lives! Move mountains! Provide! Restore! Place us in divine situations that bless others! Heal us! Free us and use us! He can even make us to use to being uncomfortable. All this freedom from redecorating!
KGB❤