by Joanne Wiklund
Funny, isn’t it, how many companies are selling furniture these days to make it easy for us to make multi-tasking part of the job of every room in the house. How many times have you repurposed rooms in your abode? A bedroom becomes an office, the dining room becomes a study where computers on bookcases and even the dining room table have become a place where everyone does homework, even Mom and Dad.
Walk in closets have also become offices or study places. Move those hangers to one side and set up a table or two on the other. Lighting of course has to be better or everyone will be crossing their eyes to see. I read once that if you always start cleaning your home in the same room and work through the house in the same way, sooner or later you will have to saw off the back bedroom. In my case, a long neglected office which suffers from a case of redirected priorities became something that needs the help not just of a saw, but a real chainsaw!
I’m redirecting things still, shuffling stuff and repurposing furniture. The bed in the spare room is now covered with photo albums from a nearby cabinet. The kitchen cupboard, a real cupboard is harboring my collection of cookbooks which I rarely use anymore. I’m trying hard to go back to the real office and its organization. That is where I came in. As a writer, having a dedicated writing space is so important.
I hope we all learn something big this semester; if not, we have a second chance in January. Remember January? Pray, people, pray daily.
Romans 8:38-39 “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”