creating space

Not much has changed with the adoption in the past couple of months, we are still waiting on the list. Leland keeps telling me we are getting close but it still feels like a distant future.

Lately, Leland and I have been cleaning out the house. One of our bedrooms, we call the room of boxes. It has been full of different boxes since we moved to Louisiana three and a half years ago. We have always know that the room of boxes will eventually become a baby room.

The past six months Leland has been working on moving things into his office/train room. On January 2nd, we decided to attack the problem together. I knew that we could not remove the things from the room of boxes without getting rid of things in other parts of the house. So I attacked the guest bedroom closet.

While I was working in the guest bedroom I had an interesting thought I wanted to share. I was thinking about how we are working to prepare a space for a child we have never met. We don't know their name, gender, or even their age when they will come to the states. But we are very willing and excited to create space in our house for them. It will be their home.

Then I started to think about Jesus when he said, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. My Father's house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:1-4

Jesus left Earth, preparing a place for us at His Father's house and will come back for us. I have thought about this before but as I am cleaning out my own house I could not help thinking about it again. I could not help but think about how Jesus is making a perfect place for us with Him. I don't know what it looks like but I can only imagine. He is making preparations for us in our new forever home.

As Leland and I are preparing for our child to be a part of our family, I could not help but feel I was getting a glimpse of God's heart in the process.