Just recently my brother just accepted a new job in New Jersey. This required relocation on his part from his New Hampshire home. Today is his move in day and I haven't had a chance to speak with him about the move much, but I began to think about the idea of it--moving that is.
I remember move-in day when I first began college freshman year. I was so excited to live on campus, but more importantly to be in a new space, but I didn't realize it was exactly just that.
Moving into a new space.
It took my experience to learn that you make a place your home if you choose. It could be a room, it could be a house, it could be an apartment or dorm. That saying of "making a house a home" isn't completely open to the fact that anywhere or anything can be home for you--like your body, your vessel, your soul.
I began to expand my thoughts onto that idea even more. If these new spaces and places are merely just that--operating as hollow shells of shelter, what is on the inside matters the most. Sounds cliche, but honestly think about it.
Houses don't become homes until you fill the inside with things that aren't materialistic nor temporary, but things that stem from life and continue to give life--eternally.
Things like love, joy, and peace. If we know to add those components, something complicated and a chore can become very simple and a pleasure to do.
My mind began to wonder what was inside of me.
What makes the house a home inside of me?
Next thing you know, I'm speaking over and into my own life. Desiring that everlasting love, joy, peace, patience, gratefulness, gentleness, kindness, and self control--I desire all of the fruits.
The more I begin to think upon these things, I become open to receiving them which is a true blessing. I hope to furnish my home literally and metaphorically with those things and that my life continues to bring moments like these--where the intangibly unseen manifests itself into the tangible reality that we continue to see daily. That my curious wisdom brings more truth to witness for myself and others with purpose.
We have some cleaning to do.
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