Creating a create room

I have this dream room.

It is spilling with supplies.

Has a bright window where birds sit in front to chirp me along my way.

White painted cabinets fill the wall space.

A large cutting table adorns the center.

My kids have a place to create along side me.

Color spills from every corner.

Yet, it is calm and relaxing when I get there.

Ideas creep out of the woodwork with little effort at all.

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Could it be here?

                                                                 Source: french-knot.tumblr.com via Heather on Pinterest

Or maybe here?

                                                                                Source: tipjunkie.com via Heather on Pinterest

Or perhaps here?

But alas, it is a room in basement.

No window, no white cabinets, no large cutting table - just yet......

But I do see a kids area, a large pin board, bright colored paint.  

It could just what I am looking for and I didn't know it!  

Define Mondays - Loyal

loy·al adj \ˈlȯi(-ə)l\

1  : unswerving in allegiance: as

a : faithful in allegiance to one's lawful sovereign or government

b : faithful to a private person to whom fidelity is due

c : faithful to a cause, ideal, custom, institution, or product

Some of the smallest words can have the largest meaning.  We can study the meanings in school, look them up in the dictionary but do we really know what they mean until we see them lived out? 

This past week I met loyalty a few times.  I met it in the eyes of an 8 year old boy when he held his dying furry friend.  My very sick 14 year old husky keeps holding on; not because he wants to be here but because he is loyal to his owners.  A call from a kindergarten friend was yet another reminder of true loyalty.  

Sweet Dakota and his loyal friend Sonny after the loss of their friend the most perfect yellow lab - Cotton

My 13 year marriage to Michael would not be the powerhouse it is today if our loyalty to each other wasn’t so deliberate.  Being loyal takes intention, it takes strength, it takes love.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV - Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.