As I vacuumed our screened in porch this morning, I was struck with a thought that it is a like an old friend beckoning. The wicker chairs are dropping chips, and I must choose a day to sand and repaint them. I purchased cushions to match the ones on our dining chairs, yet did not fit because the wicker has stretched, so although the cushions on the wicker now, don’t match and are not ones I would have chosen, they fit it well and add to the welcoming ambiance. Plants, shrubs, trees and whispering air, surround me. I can hear a symphony of the birds communicating. Occasionally a car passes by in the distance and I feel the ocean soothing my soul knowing it is a short walk away.
This isn’t exactly the setting I had imagined; yet it feels very familiar and I know I am home. I recognized it immediately when Burt and I first walked through the house. This house, this land, has a spirit of love and welcoming. It embraces all who enter, and that is exactly what I had always envisioned my home being.
As I sit here today, I feel transported to another time and place almost imagining the life in these walls. I am filled with a sense of peace and belonging that feels so very comfortable and natural. I am reminded of my grandparents’ house in Gilford, NH. My family called it “The Hampshire House” because they actually lived in MA. We went to the Hampshire House on weekends and all summer. It was a special place for me, and I was so sad when they sold it to move to Florida. I am being flooded with visions, senses, and memories right now of the happiness I experienced living there.
How perfect that I have a space where I can build on that foundation from so long ago. As I release the anger, resentment, fear, frustration that I had stored so deeply away in my body, I am flooded with memories of joy, laughter, connection, and love in ways that I had forgotten at some level. Fortunately another level remembered for me and was just waiting for me to come home.
May your day be filled with joyful memories of love!
Cheri
www.CheriValentine.com/blog
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