For the past week Nate and I have been going to town on remodeling our camp store, The Trading Post. We were all tired of it looking like a storage closet with warehouse shelves and wanted it to have that rustic-bringing-nature-indoors feel.
I am so blessed to have a co-worker and friend like Nate, who just gets things done. In just three days we (ok, mostly Nate) had built twelve shelves from old wood pallets, searched the antique store for baskets, re-hung our pegboard, rearranged the decorations, and made a hanging display shelf from an old log and retired ropes from our challenge course.
Although we aren’t entirely finished, everyone agrees that the store looks much better. One of our friends from last semester saw a picture and even commented, “You’re lying to me, that has to be a different camp store! That looks too good!”
And he’s right. Just a few little changes made all the difference. We really didn’t spend much money or take that much time or make anything too fancy or complicated. And all of this reminded me of how we can change our whole day, our whole perspective, our whole lives with little changes. It doesn’t have to be a complete do-over. It can be really simple and it can happen now.
The Lord makes the old parts of us new. He’s re-working us, building off of what is already there, little by little, until we are a better version of the people we were meant to be.
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