I have been re-arranging my kitchen.

Here’s the background: I have lived in this home for almost 11 years.  On the day that we moved in, my wonderful cousin unpacked my kitchen and set it up for me.  It was amazing. She has an incredible knack for organization and workflow. It was perfect. It was a huge blessing to have that all set up for me as I ran around trying to place everything else.   The kitchen is the central hub of my home; you do not get to pass Go or collect $200 without going through the kitchen.  I had begun to realize that what worked for just my husband and myself years ago was not working now with 8 hands and 4 paws in my kitchen.  So, I purged some unused items and shuffled the remainder around for easier accessibility.

Who cares, right? I know, but this is a big deal to me.

I am a creature of habit.  I live by the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But, you see, I have been praying for God to give me a fresh set of eyes.  I have been wanting to see things they way that He sees them- his vantage point.  I have been wanting to fold back in the layers that we often ignore when we just see the mundane things of life. When I look at the picture, whether big or small, what am I missing?

In Lysa TerKeurst’s book, Unglued, she talks about changing perspectives and gives the analogy of an eggshell.  If I may paraphrase, she states that from our vantage point, outside of the shell, we think that it’s so fragile.  We take great care at protecting our eggshells until it is time for them to be broken.  From inside the shell, however, the shell is a hard barrier that requires great strength to break.  That blew my mind- who would think that it requires great strength the break an eggshell? The chick inside it, of course!

We all encounter these boundaries.  We just need to remember which side we are on and what strength we have to break them.  Are you the chick inside, developing strength as you make the tiniest of cracks in your egg shell or are you the person on the outside, equipped with all that you need to break it?

I know that rearranging my home is not a big deal in the grand scheme of life, but my prayer is this:  If God can give me vision to change the old into something better, maybe He can do this in all the other areas of my life that need rearranging- my heart, my marriage, my kids, ministry.  If I am willing to let Him do it in my kitchen, maybe I’ll be willing to let him do it everywhere else.