I watched a film the other night with a few mates and it really made me think, in fact most of the next couple of days it's was turning over in my head. When stripped back to its bones what the movie was commenting on was loneliness and specifically every Christians ability to do something about it for everyone around them. So often its easy just to live our lives for ourselves, trying to be good people but never giving a second thought to people around us who are struggling with life. It is our job to love because God first loved us; God loves everyone and therefore we should love everyone and with that in mind you realize that for people to be stuck in loneliness just won't do.
For the last few years I have felt that my home (where ever it is) must be a safe place and a place were anyone who might need it is welcome. It's a nice thought and while my house is slowly getting to the point where it will be livable it is still empty and it is hard to make anyone feel welcome when there is nowhere for them to sit, nowhere to eat & nowhere to sleep.
As you may have guessed I am now paying off a house and renovating a house which together cost quite a bit of money, unfortunately buying a whole bunch of nice new furniture is out of the question and I'm not a huge fan of cheap plastic furniture so I headed to the streets and lucky for me it's the council clean up season:
the first thing I found (actually just before Christmas) was a dinning table; its probably 30 something years old, its solid and in my opinion its got some character. In my mind I'd have to spend a lot of money to get anything better and this was completely free.
Next I found a couple of interesting Chairs around the streets near my parents place, these two seats are actually the first two pieces of furniture in my house.
And more lately I've found two more cool chairs on the way home from life group last week.
On the afternoon of Sunday the 23rd me and James (my brother) headed over Frenches Forest way after he spotted some dining chairs on his way to a party the night before, we found them and picked them up. if you have a good look you'll see that the dinning chairs have the same legs as the table pretty cool hey!
The next few hours we spent picking up a couple sets of draws, a coffee table, a small cupboard and more chairs.
As you may have thought; none of these chairs match or even look good on their own. I will be teaching myself how to re-upholster very soon, fingers crossed it goes well. They all look a bit off now but give me some time and I reckon they'll all look pretty good and should be very comfortable for anyone who ends up at my place ... for what ever reason & I pray that God will use them.
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