Why I’d Take The TV Out Of The Floor Plan

I’ve been trained to love my comfort. I can be enjoying something and react to being asked to take out the trash as though giving up that comfort is going to kill me. I get mad. I don’t want to do it. That attachment to what I call a particular good is part of why a floor plan matters to me personally.

When I think about removing the TV from a floor plan, I’m thinking about what takes our time and attention. I want to help Christian families, and any family, become more present to one another and more on fire for love. I believe that includes becoming willing to do hard things instead of protecting every comfort.

A smaller house where everyone is colliding with one another can be difficult. There’s more intimacy, but there are also more decisions to make. Someone needs something. You have to respond. I don’t think every one of those demands is a problem that more space should solve.

I believe that when my phone and other creature comforts take less of my time, I have more mental capacity for the decisions that being a parent, a spouse or a business owner requires. That’s the trade-off I care about when I think about a home.

Before adding space to avoid those encounters, I want to consider what we could remove that keeps us from being available to each other.