Trying to be a consistent blogger while I'm staying in someone else's home is not going to happen.
There are just too many other things and people going on around here.
Good things. And good people. But not conducive to, well, anything consistent, really.
Hopefully, that is more attributed to the whole house hunting mess than just not being in our own space. But, we really don't have any sort of consisent routine.
Except looking for/at homes for two hours every night online.
It's the most fun thing ever.
Oh, wait. It's not.
But I did have a thought the other day. And I can feel its real world application, though I'm still sorting through that part.
Basically, I've noticed that the way I consider and value a home has evolved.
When we first started looking at homes, I had a very difficult time seeing past the most obvious things in a room: furniture, color of the walls, dirty surfaces. A home might have been passable, but if there was a bunch of grime around the knobs on doors, I just wanted to leave.
Then I started paying more attention to the items listed on the spread for each home. So I could remember that a home has 5 bedrooms even if the kitchen cabinets are a little dirty.
But now, I've become much more proficient of taking all of the above into account while also considering the space and potential of a home.
Finding the beauty within, so to speak.
Does that mean we'll end up with the big house that has great potential, but requires quite a bit of work? I don't know.
But, it is teaching me that I can make the same changes in how I see people.
I'm not proud of this, but I do get very uncomfortable around people who aren't "pretty". I put that in quotations because I don't mean the typical definition of pretty. I mean people who don't fit in (that one weird looking house in the neighborhood, you know?), are a little grimy, rough around the edges, or maybe just need some extra work to find their true potential.
There are exceptions to this in my life, thankfully. I have been able to "overlook" the above mentioned "shortcomings" of some people I've crossed paths with.
But, I really want to get past that whole mentality. I want to see people for what they really are--just like seeing the structure inside the run down home. And I don't want to feel like I'm "overlooking" any part of them, but to accept them for who they once were and can become.
And when you're looking at the "floor plan" of an individual, there really isn't much of a difference between those two things. We have always been and always will be children of God. He created each of us, as a unique masterpiece for Him. We will always be divine because that is where we came from. Becoming more like our Father in Heaven may require knocking out a wall here, or there. Or, maybe even gutting the kitchen to start fresh, but fundamentally, it's still the same house. Just better.
As I type this I realize that I'm not just talking about other people. Maybe it's just me. If I could look past my dented walls, broken blinds, missing door knobs, and the weeds that have overtaken my backyard, and see the daughter of God that I have always been and the divine inheritance He has promised for what I can become, maybe I could see that in others as well?
Maybe then I could make peace with who I am right now. Because I would know where I came from, what I started out as, and where I am going and can become. Where I am now is a product of both the maintenance I've let slip and also the improvements and upgrades I've invested in.
Even the most perfect home still needs maintenance to stay in great condition.
I am a work in progress.
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