Beautiful Mess
12-11-14
I bought a house last March, and am just now getting to "personalize" it. I'm slow at working on it, so it'll probably be years before each room is themed as I "dreamed". A few weeks ago we painted the main portions of the guest bedroom (aka ceiling and walls). We coated the trim in sticky blue tape. I'm ready to decorate the room, but the room is not. The closet is still in rough shape and the trim definitely needs repainting. However when I was taking off the tape to see how much touching up was needed, I looked at the room and thought "this is a beautiful mess". Weird. My entire house is a mess. There are loads of dishes to do in the sink, I have a path in my bedroom and only one spot to sit on my couch. It's pretty bad. So why did I think this was a beautiful mess? I've thought that about a knitting project with yarn shapes everywhere, but an entire room?
Then it's like God showed me the object lesson. A beautiful mess is a "mess" with the components for a finished project. My dishes, bedroom, and couch are filled with clutter, but no components for a finished project. We are a "beautiful mess" to Him. We have some spots in our lives that are sometimes disastrous, but He sees the finished project and has His eye on it. I realized, I see what the room is to become and what my pieces of knitting are going to create, so it's easy for me to overlook the unsightly incompleteness of it. Yes, the right now isn't appealing, but what it will become is. Maybe if we start thinking that we are a project God is working on, we'll be able to accept the unsightly spots of life a bit easier. Something to think about.
I bought a house last March, and am just now getting to "personalize" it. I'm slow at working on it, so it'll probably be years before each room is themed as I "dreamed". A few weeks ago we painted the main portions of the guest bedroom (aka ceiling and walls). We coated the trim in sticky blue tape. I'm ready to decorate the room, but the room is not. The closet is still in rough shape and the trim definitely needs repainting. However when I was taking off the tape to see how much touching up was needed, I looked at the room and thought "this is a beautiful mess". Weird. My entire house is a mess. There are loads of dishes to do in the sink, I have a path in my bedroom and only one spot to sit on my couch. It's pretty bad. So why did I think this was a beautiful mess? I've thought that about a knitting project with yarn shapes everywhere, but an entire room?
Then it's like God showed me the object lesson. A beautiful mess is a "mess" with the components for a finished project. My dishes, bedroom, and couch are filled with clutter, but no components for a finished project. We are a "beautiful mess" to Him. We have some spots in our lives that are sometimes disastrous, but He sees the finished project and has His eye on it. I realized, I see what the room is to become and what my pieces of knitting are going to create, so it's easy for me to overlook the unsightly incompleteness of it. Yes, the right now isn't appealing, but what it will become is. Maybe if we start thinking that we are a project God is working on, we'll be able to accept the unsightly spots of life a bit easier. Something to think about.
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