House Full of Verses

        I came up with this title after going over to someone else's house and seeing how many Bible verses they had up around their house and all the different ways they had them up. It was the week of the Bible study that I am in where we are called to make a home and we went over to another person's house to see what making a Christ centered home felt like and looked like. I got a lot of neat ideas from that home to use someday in my main home but then I came back to my small apartment and looked around.
         I was thinking that I wanted to do the verses they way this person did them in her home. They were big on her walls and very pretty. There were wall hangings all around with verses or even nice, encouraging sayings on them. I was jealous at first because being a FACS major I love that kind of stuff and I've wanted my own big house ever since I got done with college. It is just a part of who I am and how I was raised but then I got to looking around in my small apartment. As I was looking around it, I got to thinking that right now at this moment in my life it does fit me just fine.
         It fits me because it is only me that I have to worry about living in it. I can make it feel like however I want to but I do want to start with a little of what I would want my big dream home to look and feel like and it does because of the things I have. I mean it is rustic in its colors and could be considered cabin, outdoors type with all the bears I have sitting around. I have dark colors but they go do with a light tan and that is the colors of the apartment's walls so I have been thinking a little for my future home.
         Something else hit me after seeing that home during the Bible study and it was the Bible verses all over the place and having a room being for a certain thing and only that thing. I came home that night and of course went to sleep. Then I woke up the next morning and just started to look around my apartment before work and some thoughts came to my mind. One thought was: "I would love to have more big verses up on the walls and in a prettier way then I have them now but at least I have some up where I can see them throughout the day." By that I mean, I have some pretty pictures that have verses or sayings on them hanging up in frames but most of the verses are written on notecards and hung around my apartment on the doors or on the cabinets.
          The notecards are mainly one single one with one verse on them but I also have 2 packets of notecards with verses about a certain feeling, like when I'm anxious I can look at that packet, hanging up by my bedroom door. Then I have another packet of notecards with verses by my outside door. Not only do I put verses on notecards and then hang them up around the apartment but I also write verses on all the mirrors I have in my apartment. I try to have two monthly ones that I leave up for a month on my bathroom mirror and my dresser mirror. Those are the main places that I get ready in the morning for the day so that is a easy way to help me memorize some verses.
          So whether I like to think of it or not, I do have a house full of verses and if people were to come into my apartment I hope they would read those verses and ask questions about them. I hope that it would get them to start thinking about their life or just be comforted during a hard time. It is not that pretty yet but that doesn't matter as long as I can memorize them right now and live them outside of my apartment. If people ever come over, they can at least read them too.
          It is not about how it is to show the word written out but it is about how we show it by living out our lives outside of our houses. Yes, it is a plus and a easier way to start talking about Jesus and the Bible if we have it around our house but we don't need to be set on doing it in a certain way to where it looks more important then the verses themselves.