Have you ever considered your home and its far reaching possibilities? It is more than merely a place to lie down at night and store all the things you own. Whether your home is large or small, leased or owned, you are living in a multiple faceted place for diverse opportunities to impact your generation.

While speaking in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for a Women’s Conference, I was chatting with the director, Becky, over lunch one day. She told me that she had a heart to encourage other women. After exploring the space in her home, and getting permission from her husband, she rearranged their home to accommodate her dream. Becky decorated, arranged and customized her dining room and adjoining living room for her own special cafe. Developing her dream included selling some of her furniture and replacing it with movable items. She added tables and chairs to her sitting areas and opened her home to women from 9-5 on Mondays. She always has a pot of coffee ready and tea brewing for any who come. Women are invited to come and be encouraged or just talk and enjoy the community of new friends. Prayer is available too if they need it, with mentoring opportunities. Each week it is a surprise who comes to her own customized “Starbucks” atmosphere in Albuquerque. Her home has become a hospitality center.

Similarly, on a speaking engagement in the Midwest, we stopped by the Hogan Family’s home. We were met by our friends and their children. Our scheduled lunch with them was delightful, but it was their daughter’s efforts and generosity that gave me the boost I needed that day. I mentioned I had been suffering with some acid reflux attacks, and my digestive system was inflamed. Sophia brought me some Kefir water loaded with probiotics and home-cultured yogurt filled with the same. I was sent on my way with homemade bottles of healthy drinks and nourishment. Sophia, 17, had been apprenticing with a nutritionist, and her knowledge was beyond her years. I benefited that day when leaving their home–a healing center.

I know a family who open their home to internationals who are attending the university near their home. They love to interact with students who are lonely and in need of a good home cooked meal. It is in this setting they have taught their own children a living geography lesson with faces and cultures to relate to, while offering their home as a refuge. Each benefit from learning new languages and reaching around the globe with a meal. Their home is an international outreach and teaching center.

When our children were younger we decided to make homemade bread from grains we milled. From our first loaf to growing a business called, “Mac-Bread,” our children learned skills; a work ethic; business; and character. Businesses are birthed from homes all across the country. We had to endure some messes and mistakes, but soon we outgrew our home and moved into our own small bakery, while our children made calls each week to customers. They learned to interact with all ages and the importance of doing business with excellence. Our home was a center for business.

Perhaps, you are looking for a good house. Consider it to be a center that will impact more than just your family. Making it a home and having a vision for its potential is limitless.

  How do you use your home? What could yet be done in your home if you just rearranged it for your dreams too?

When you choose to look past the horizon… the sky is the limit!