In This Very Room

When Rick and I got married, I asked Maria (my SIL) to sing a song, "In This Very Room." Maria sang it beautifully and, since then, I have often looked back on that special moment and thought about the lyrics. This weekend, as I was sitting in my living room, I thought of the song again.
Here are the lyrics:

"In this very room
there's quite enough love
for all the world
and in this very room
there's quite enough joy
for all the world
and there's quite enough hope
and quite enough power
to chase away any gloom
for Jesus
is in this very room"

My living room is small. It's cramped, too! Amazing what you can fit into a space! Let's see, in addition to all the normal living room furniture, we have two swings, a pack-n-play, a cupcake kitchen, a child's desk, and plenty of books and toys that are periodically shoved into a side closet to make the room look not so cluttered.
However, I LOVE this room. I love it because it's where my family does everything! We watch TV together in this room. We eat chips on the couch and then give potato chip kisses in this room. We dance to Latin Urbana on On-Demand in this room. We have pillow fights in this room. We play hide-and-seek in this room. Lately, Rick and I take turns sleeping in this room!
It's a place for us to be together and have fun together as a family. We can't spread out into different rooms, doing different things.
In short, this room keeps us close. That's why I love it so much.

The pics I posted were all taken in our living room area. To me, each picture represents a moment in which I felt so much joy...so much hope. There is no doubt in my mind that the presence of God resides is our small space where we spend so much of our time.

I hope when you think about your own home, a place like this comes to mind. A place where there is so much joy to be had because you are spending time with the people you love...

I see God in this very room, my living room.

Love,
Mary