Extreme Makeover

Ahh this is so good I had to steal it from my friend's blog.

It's interesting, I was talking to a friend yesterday telling her how much I used to love watching those House Makeover programmes on TV. We watched one together (ahh day TV on snowy days!) and I was so excited!

It's amazing what people can do in 60min, redecorate two berdooms, a sitting room sometimes even a garden. I was also secretly hoping they'd come to mine and do the same! We were also talking about how it would actually take a heck lot longer to redo a whole house from ceiling to floor. Then the result would be smashing!

So this quote I am just about to post really came at the right time and it spoke to me about how sometimes things in life hurt and don't make sense, yet it is part of God's healing and restoration process in me. :-)

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought your were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

- from Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)

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