When building a home you start out with a vision then that vision turns into actual blueprints that may need some adjusting time and time again. We started out with no intention of having a two story home, we did not see the need, it just wasn't in our plans. Well as our contractor stated "I know we didn't plan for this but the space is there and it would be stupid not to use it." So we miraculously were able to make some adjustments in our plans and in our budget to incorporate a staircase, an upstairs area along with an office.
This was not our intention at all but now as I sit in the office that was always supposed to be my husband's office that is now mine in which I am starting a ministry from, I look back and see just how God had the space prepared all along. The space in general sat vacant for a few years then it became a catch all for large toys. We turned the area into a playroom with a chalkboard wall and an art table along with doll houses and play kitchens even a train table. Over the years the kids would play in this space for a few days a week but mom would always have to sit with them. My husband used the office a little bit for management work for the family business but nothing consistent. When we would have friends over to play most of the kids flocked upstairs and they sounded like a herd of elephants jumping upstairs. Over time the space has transitioned and been cleaned out; it's been freed of it's clutter and given back some of it's space.
Today I was able to recreate the room into our homeschool classroom. I took the time to don the walls with educational posters, use our once cluttered art table as our place to sit and teach my kids and remove all the clutter from my dining room table to a makeshift book shelf in our upstairs space. My flea market globe is now a centerpiece to our classroom as my kids are mesmerized by the size of the earth.
I can't help be see how God had his plans all along. How He intended this space to be a semblance of how we as people need to make room for Him. God provides us that space in our hearts and in our lives for Him but we may never continue to rearrange or make space for Him to use it or fill it. A room we never intended to need or even thought we would need and yet God filled it with a purpose.
We all have to make space in our lives for Him to move in, take up space and cultivate His intentions. As time moves on and our seasons of life will change this space may become something else, which I'm sure that it will but what's important is that we continue to manage that space so God can fulfill it's purpose.
Megan Taunton
