Extreme Make-over of Sacred Space

Relationships. Somehow what God keeps trying to show us is that He is all about relationships. Hence He designed various combinations of relationships to reflect His heart and to benefit us. However dysfunctionally we have managed those relationships we still have a God who gives us glimpses of how powerful they are.

And that was clear today as a crowd of us gathered at a house in Vancouver that is going to become a home where women from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver can live together and learn about community through relationships in a family/home setting. One of the women who has courageously made that change from addiction life to a healing life that has Jesus in it, shared with us how much a Linwood House would have moved her toward healing at a faster pace. A home with "sacred space" that reflected God through deep beauty and being made to feel worth while.

We sat around, papers and pens ready to jot down ideas, as we brainstormed the "extreme make over" of a home we are going to be involved in teaming up with. It was amazing to hear the following"
- oh we have construction friends and will have them come in to help
- we have friends who can connect us with those who "have" and want to give to those who "have not", and the website to check.
- a garden artist looked about and gave ideas on how this backyard could become a sacred space
- two others surveyed the bedrooms and quickly assessed what was needed and will contact an amazing seamstress who could begin some ideas for curtains, bedding etc.
- another wants to bring his children who are qualified in woodworking and could build a wonderful laundry room.

On and on the ideas flowed and the enthusiasm built. In this city we have enough facilities for food handouts and enough outreach facilities but what we don't have enough of is the relationships required to walk together and move forward. This "home on 28th" will be about relationships and seeing them grow, develop and enlarge the Kingdom.

And God said to him, 'I've listened to and received all your prayers, your ever-so-passionate prayers. I've sanctified this sacred space that you have built: My name is stamped on it forever; my eyes are on it and my heart in it alway.