It's A Journey...

... But let me tell you I so want to reach the destination!!

In our house projects!

Spring is coming. It's been 4 months since we have moved into our first home. We are beyond itching to start the projects. We are busy trying to get our house projects envelope to catch up with our desire to start making the inside personal, but where to start!?

Oh the ideas let me tell you what!!

2 weeks ago we hogged Home Depot's Behr's paint selection machine and picked colors for every room for a good hour. No joke. It was so fun!The entryway, the school room, the whole house!! The first room we are going to paint will be our daughter's room. We already have same splotches up on the wall and we are pretty sure she has settled on a color. We just need to pick up which gallon finish we want and start taping off and moving everything out of the way. Painting her dresser, her bed, and walls are the first on the agenda.

Her walls top to bottom will be this color... White baseboards and a white chair rail are in her room already. 

Tree bark drawn in this color

Blossoms on the tree in this color

And her dresser and bed distressed in this color

But I want to start!! I am not a patient person. My husband isn't either which honestly presents lots of problems when we need to tell each other to slow down. It really doesn't look pretty when we each jump and we need one to be the reasonable one. It's a work in progress. Everyone we run into asks how is the house coming along and we smile and say good. Oh but we are itching decorate!!! We've never been able to really decorate and now we get to. We can't wait!

I was smacked the last couple weeks though that my dire desire to "personalize" right now, in this second, is my desire to receive as the world gives. A put together house and all that comes with that for some that get to move right into a new house and take it apart and put it perfectly back together in the short timeframe we have lived here. God told me he doesn't give as the world gives which made me realize maybe we aren't to start decorating just yet but when God says yes. He gave us this house, which we still sit in awe of daily, but we have to remember to sit in the moment he is teaching us through. The time will come we can accessorize and paint. It will be an awesome moment, but the lesson of it can't all happen in one full swing is going to be a hard lesson to learn because both my husband and I are wanting to do one room fully at one time. All of it. All the painting, all of the accents, and just a complete room all at once. God is teaching it won't happen that way. And that's okay. There will be a reward for the patience I know it, but it's going to be a hard lesson. And in the process I'm thankful I am at least allowed to log ideas into Evernote for when God says,"It is time."

Is there something you are longing for in full to happen yesterday but God is saying,"Just wait it's only going to be pieced together, and in MY time at that!" And you are wanting all the pieces to put it all together right now... in full... at once!?

You aren't alone but I can assure you that the reward of fully accomplishing the journey laid out in front of us will be amazing. Hitting all of the points God says to will be so rewarding in the end as we look at the finished masterpiece!!

I can't wait to see what the master decorator has in mind. I just need to keep my eyes from being envious of someone else's journey and love the journey I am on right now... individually. Respectfully as awesome as the next... just mine, and I know that God has me right where I am to be because there is a lesson to prosper me in this waiting... in the gathering of each piece... in his time... to finish each room. There is a reason I am to look at each individual piece and the journey it's taken to gather each one vs just slapping the full picture up at once and seeing it then. I wouldn't appreciate each room if that was the case. I know I wouldn't.