Moving Furniture

This past Monday I was itching for a change... I wanted to paint, redecorate, reorganize... So after cleaning out the pots and pans cupboard that I had been avoiding, I decided to rearrange the living room furniture.

My husband and I had talked a couple weekends ago about different seating arrangements in our living room, so I had some general ideas of what would (and would not) work. I quickly discovered, much to my dismay, that I would NOT be able to move the TV/entertainment center more than an inch or two...trust me when I say I REALLY tried. However, that did not dissuade this stubborn-kick-boxing-girlie to move everything else in the living room. At one point, I had everything pushed into the hallways- which gave me the perfect opportunity to vacuum and collect many scattered Nerf darts. I actually had a blast.

At one point I broke into laughter because I had literally moved my husband's chair into every possible configuration and location in the living room, only to have it end up right back where it started. The couch, too, is just a few inches off from where it began...and when I was finally satisfied with the arrangement, I laughed again... The actual configuration of the room had not changed more than a few inches here and there- I had simply put different pieces of furniture in the same comfortable locations.

Now part of that, is simply room design and TV location. I could really make some drastic changes if I wanted to crawl under my house and do some re-wiring. But I spent the rest of the afternoon pondering the 'comfortability' of my living room and the 'comfortability' of my life. How many times have I tried something new, attempted to rearrange some things (habits) in my own life...only to end up with the 'furniture' right back where it started? And how many times have I moved just a few inches to the right or to the left to find I'm exactly where God wants me? Don't really have answers...those would be rhetorical questions to ponder. I will admit, however, that I think more often than I'd like to admit...I move the chair into every other position in the room (even removing it for a time) only to find I'm sitting in the exact same comfortable and familiar spot that I started in...