Written by Bob Goff, a contemporary author. This is an excerpt from his book “Catching Whimsy.”
In life, whether we are paying rent or paying a mortgage, we are still the tenants. It’s not our place; it’s God’s. If we want to move the furniture around a little, no problem. But before we start remodeling the house and repurposing what we are caretaking, we need to get permission from the owner. How do you know what you have permission to change in your life? The answer is both simple and hard. We have permission to love and forgive and engage and be obedient and to be wise and kind. We might not have permission to build fences to separate ourselves from others. We also might not have permission to build a shed and store up things God would rather have us put into play. Jesus doesn’t need pictures of Him hung on the walls. He would rather we decorate our lives and our hearts with compassion and empathy and generosity and joy and with, yes, a touch of whimsy…Love, hope, and patience are always the best kind of accents to our lives.
Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. [1 Corinthians 12:7]
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