Making myself at home

I am trying to get settled and get to work here at Good Shepherd, but to be honest I am finding it a little difficult. A big part of it, I think is that the office doesn't really feel mine. It is full (pretty literally) of other peoples left over stuff, stuff the church had no other place to put and stuff that probably belongs here - but doesn't feel like its mine to use yet.

So I am going to be doing some clearing out over the next few days and I am going to try to make it as much mine as I can - until the rest of our stuff gets moved here next week.

As I am in the midst of this it struck me that this is how it probably is with us and God.

We need to allow God to move in and make Himself at home in our lives - including taking down and getting rid of the stuff that doesn't belong to him.

Wow, that doesn't sound easy or fun, but I think that is exactly what we need to do if we want to begin to live into the call of God in our lives and live up to who God created us to be.

I don't think this is the headline I was going for, but maybe we need to let God be the interior decorator of our hearts, souls and lives. Okay, seriously I need a better line than that, but I really do think that is the idea that we should be going for.