Posted in Eclectic Me

This weekend I felt self defeated.  While my oldest is away, we diceded to redecorate his room.  We began our plan with a minimal budget and a plan of how to recoup most of the oney spent.  The beginning of the project went well...at least the selling things part. 

The whole project was spurred from the fact that or very tall son was in in need of a new bed.  He had been sleeping in a bunkbed, which was much to short for him.  He had been asking for a new bed for about 8 months.  We had been saving to purchase a new one, while watching sales, etc.  In the meantime, we dismantled the bed, advertised, and sold it.  Then we sold an old desk, and advertised another desk for sale.  We emptied his room of furniture in order to have an empty room with which to work.  This is where my trouble began.

In short, my plan was to change the wall color, get a new bed and bedding.  This turned into painting his furniture (which is a lot) and window dressings.  We needed twice as much paint as I had figured.  Then we realized the carpet needed replaced, which meant to cost of flooring.  When I tried to remove the border paper, it was extrememly difficult.  It cost us extra money for products and gadgets to help us remove it.  Then the wall was gauged in a few places from trying to remove the paper, so we had to spend extra $ to repair and restore the wall.  UGH!

So this weekend as I continued to paint the furniture, a seemingly never ending project, I became overwhelmed.  What I learned from this project is that I left out a major component of deciding to do this room; I didn't seek wise council.  Instead I let me emotions control the project, thinking, "This will be so much fun!"  It hasn't been, not even a little.  I left God out of the equation. 

Had I gone to Him and prayed for guidance before undertaking this project, I could have avoided all the pitfalls and thus money spent to accomplish this project.  Although part of me wishes I had never taken on such a task, I have learned a valuable lesson. 

Life can be like a frog's life cycles.  You start as a nothing and then begin to evolve through different stages as your relationship grows with the Lord.  With each lesson learned you mature towards the end result.  For tadpoles, it's becoming a frog.  For us, it's developing a mature relationship with God and going on to His Kingdom when called. 

A side note to this, is that I also realized while I come here to rant, blab, inform, share fun and homeschool ideas, amongst other things, I have not truly realized how grateful I am for the ability to blog.  It is a truly amazing event that I can come here and share my thoughts and have others who are interested.  Often times people will comment about  what I have written here.  This, truly, is an exceptional opportunity afforded to those of us who have access to a computer.  We build friendships and become inspired by others writings as well. 

For some the internet may be a waste of time, strictly for business, record keeping, etc, but for sme of us, it is a part of our intimate lives.  A look at who we really are as we are growing in the Lord.  A picture into our soul of the person the Lord is molding us to be, for His purpose.  All this shared with others around the world.  We have the same oppportunity to read other's journey and thoughts through life.  Some times we agree with what is written; sometimes not.  Other times we are given good information to use in life, such as a plan to stop leaking water or recipes.  Then there are those personal blog entries which you relate to, that make you laugh out loud, cry, smile, feel warm, and cause you to think.  It's the beauty of blogging.

These are my thoughts.