Home
Our refuge.
Our family.
The place where we can feel free. Safe. Loved.
Home is a magical place.
And keeping it that way takes a lot of time and effort.
There are the people to care for.
Mothers and fathers, spouses, siblings, children, friends, pets.
Those people who hold your hair when you get sick, and who you'd wrestle lions to protect.
Home is not about a building or the material things that fill up the space.
It is about belonging, and helping, and loving.
And part of that is taking care of the needs of those you love most dear.
Feeding their stomachs and clothing their backs.
Keeping tidy.
Feeding their minds and healing their wounds.
Showing loving correction
Helping each other find Truth
and
see others,
see the world,
see their potential.
It's easy to see how your spirituality effects your home life, and how your home life can effect your spirituality. They are aspects of our environment and self that exist symbiotically, that feed upon each other.
Being well-rounded is about finding balance, and within that balance, peace.
Home is where peace dwells.
And with that peace and that love we are edified and enriched.
We have the strength to chase our dreams and endure when rejection slaps us hard across the face.
Inspiration is found in each day.
Stories are safe to grow.
Home should always, always be a priority.
When making my goal for the round to well-rounded challenge for HOME, I found myself thinking of my siblings, and how I've managed to move so far away from them, and grown so busy as an adult that I hardly know them at all anymore. My goal will be to try to communicate with them more often this year.
When coming up with a challenge for yourself, it can be a relationship one or a more practical one- keeping up on the dishes, spending extra time with so-and-so. Whatever is lacking. Whatever will make your peace more complete.
Again, for those of you joining the challenge, I will simply give you a field to fill in your goal, and ask you next December a percentage of how well you kept to that goal.
Who are some of the people that make you feel at home?
Is your dwelling place always mighty tidy or is it topsy slopsy like mine?
What kind of things disrupt the peace of your home?
My home is always chaotic, though I've put things in place to make things a little neater. Time is the main issue, though - finding time to get everything done that needs doing without sacrificing too much from something else. It's a toughie.
ReplyDeleteMy house is almost always cluttered, but my home is very comfortable. Mostly because of kids and pets.
ReplyDeleteMy house is usually organized and very comfortable. (Comfortable is the first word that visitors use to describe it.) And it is my refuge, my safe haven, and I try to keep it that way for my wife as well. When all the world is against us, we can come home to safety.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely post. This is something I've struggled with, actually...keeping up with people. Count me in on the challenge. :-)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I <3 you.
Who are some of the people that make you feel at home?
ReplyDeleteMostly, family and close friends make me feel at home. It's not always the location, the people who surround you.
Is your dwelling place always mighty tidy or is it topsy slopsy like mine?
I'm actually pretty tidy...when I have time. You can tell the end of a long week though, stuff is everywhere!!
What kind of things disrupt the peace of your home?
The day job and being exhausted when I come home. Noise for the sake of noise, neighbors and such. Not having read or written anything in a long time, that drives me banana pancakes!
hahaha we range from tidy to cluttered. The kids apparently are more at home when their stuff is scattered all about them.
ReplyDeleteOne of the good things about being slightly OCD is that within minutes of the kids being in bed, I have all the toys put away again.
ReplyDeleteJust remember, no writer ever had a clean house
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And obvs you know i live with twin and my bro, though i have another sis who lives in chicago for school.
I don't have a home. I have a place where I live, but that's about it. I haven't had a real home since I was a kid and I'd love to have a place to call my own, where I can really be me instead of polite roommate, aunt, etc.
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