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Room Purposes and Prayer Spots
Dear Holly,
I am about to jump into a serious decluttering of my possessions. Can you give some examples of the "purposes" for different rooms? Especially the rooms shared by all the family. Can rooms have more than one purpose (or MANY purposes)? Also, can you give some examples of ideas for a prayer spot, or advice on how to go about picking one?
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posted by Holly at 3:07 PM
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I think taking Lent and decluttering is an excellent penance!
Room Purposes -
That is whatever you want to see happen in these rooms. The move in the appropriate materials and get rid of everything else.
Ex: Our family room-
1. We talk in here (so the chairs are arranged to foster group conversations)
2. We pray in here (so our religious pictures are on the wall, rosaries on our prayer cross, meditation books are in a drawer in an end table, and our fireplace mantle has candles and a lighter and statues and flowers)
3. We watch tv/videos in here (so there is a cabinet under the TV for our videos/DVDs, and it is on wheels so we can wheel the TV back and forth)
4. My prayer spot is here (so I have my chair, my spiritual reading book selections, my formal prayers all within arms length, and I can see out the window and look at the big trees and nature when I pray.)
5. Sometimes the kids build things in here (so they have a toy box by the windowsill, hidden behind Philip's chair.)
When you know what you want done in a room, you set up the appropriate furniture and supplies.
I DON"T want board games or dog crates or pen and paper crafts in this room, so I don't store these things here.
As for a prayer spot - one lady I know had a prayer basket where she kept all her 'supplies' - her rosary, her spiritual reading books, bible, holy cards, etc etc...That way , she could carry her prayer spot with her wherever she went!
For me, my husband built me a wonderful kiosk complete with drawers for pens , another for journals, slots for spiritual reading books and Catholic education & philosophy books, notebooks, whatever.
He had examined me one evening, sitting in my chair amid all the the little piles I had around me, books and papers piled up on stools , little tables, etc, and built me something for all those 'purposes.' It was my Christmas gift!
So too - what do you need to pray? How are you going to make it accessible to yourself?
Holly, I just LOVE the Prayer Basket idea & will be putting one together for myself to be ready by the weekend. I've been unable to set up one spot for a prayer area but the basket would keep me much more mobile. Thanks for sharing that...it's just what I needed to read today! God bless!!!
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