Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Being a Resurrection People

(A Newsletter Article I think applies most days, not just in Easter season)

There was a show on the Learning Channel I loved to watch called Trading Spaces. On this show friends or neighbors trade houses for the weekend. With the help of an interior designer and carpenter they would make over a room in the house. The final reveal was the best as they showed before and after pictures of the room. What I think drew me to the show was how much a room could be transformed with a couple of days work, a limited budget and some creativity. What was even more fun was the reaction of the people whose house it was when they finally got to see the room. Except for the time a designer used hay to wallpaper the walls, the residents typically responded with joy and awe. These rooms had a new mood, a new vitality breathed into them allowing the residents to see them in a new way.