Moving day

The long awaited day has arrived and I will be off line until mid March.  Today will be spent with last minute packing, tiding and cleaning up and anticipating arriving in Oklahoma City next week.  The movers will be taking a week to get 497 miles.  I don't get it either but that is what they have scheduled.

Hopefully, between now and then, spring will have arrived and the snows and really cold weather will be a thing of the past.  I plan to hibernate and read for the next several days.

Join me next month.

It Always Works

You throw out into Mind an idea, and Mind creates it and places it on the path of your life.  Ernest Holmes

Recently, having made the decision that some of our furniture is too old to move, I wondered how I was going to get rid of all of it before the movers arrive.  Do I have to call “Haul Away Junk?”

Some smaller things just went to the curb just before garbage pickup.  While I was moving a small hallway table out, I went back into the house for the glass insert, and when I got to the door, I saw a man moving the table to a trailer.  I asked him if he wanted the glass to go with it.  Yes.  He asked me what else I was getting rid of and I invited him in to see.  He told me that he would be back the next day with some of his buddies to help me move the items.

The next day, an old television set, a leather sofa, recliner, a kitchen island and a few miscellaneous of clothing all went out the door.  The gentlemen said that he had relatives living in Mexico, who were not as fortunate as he was, and that they would love all of these items.

As one of the guys on the A-Team always said, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

Back to the quote of Ernest Holmes, it is truly fitting that I was a Religious Science Minister.  I needed the inspiration and inspiriting more than anyone else I ever taught in how to use the Principles.  God sent the right man at the right time to the right place and we were blessed. 

Life is very good. 

Adjusting to change

 "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”

-       John Pierpont Morgan –

These kinds of life changing decisions are hard on the body, mind and spirit.  We live in the times of having too many choices and so making a decision can sometimes stop us in our tracks.  It has had me stymied that it was doubly hard to overcome the inertia to move forward.

My living areas are now cleared of my usual clutter and comfort.  I am living in a sea of boxes, Spartan furniture and I am feeling the vast discomfort of change.  The area I live in is very diverse and so when we decided that some of our furniture was not going to make the move, I wondered where it was going to go.  I started carrying some items to the curb for our garbage pickup and before I could get more items out there, there was a man already loading up the discards.  When I talked with him, he was more than willing to come by the next day with his buddies and load up the rest of the furniture.  The house is now filled with echoes.

In my past life, I know that every move I made was an upward trend into something bigger and better.  I know that this move will be the same but I am still feeling the loss and the grief about it.

For instance, we bought this beautiful piece of furniture for this house to use as an island for our kitchen.  It had a butcher-block top with lots of doors and drawers for storage and a pull out half table for extra servicing space.  Our new kitchen doesn’t have room for it and when it went out the door, I wanted to cry because I haven’t gotten enough use out of it.  I know that one of the guys will make sure it gets a good home and I am glad that I could feel the generosity of the gift to move on.  But…for now, I am sad.

I know some people thrive on change.  I know, I know.  Change is all there is in this Universe, but I don’t like it.  But for now, more packing…

Life

“Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience,” says Alan Cohen in his daily inspirational quote to me this morning.  I had to stop and think about that for a minute.  Reality is just what it is but my thinking about it makes it personal to me and thus creates my experience of it. 

There are times when I get caught up in wanting life to be more or less than what it is at the present time.  When I am super busy, I want it to be more routine, calm, peaceful and serene.  When I am relaxed, calm and peaceful, there are times when I crave more excitement. 

What I have to remember is that I can experience all of it at different times.  The secret for me is to stay in the present moment.  Right now, it is okay for me to be inspired to write this essay even in the midst of having lots of things on my needs-to-be-done list.  It is okay for me to sit back and contemplate my navel while waiting for the next thought to be written. 

What I am noticing about my life right now is that I have this need to fully enjoy and experience all of what is about me, around me and is still coming to me.  When I am in a stressful state of mind, I don’t seem to be in the present nor can I enjoy what is going on and when it is done and over, I have difficulty remembering what happened during that time.  I don’t like having gaps in my memory and not being able to remember what happened to me during those times. 

My intention is to think thoughts that create a wonderful experience for me in my reality in order for me to slow down to the speed of my life and to be able to savor all of it as it happens.  My life truly is blessed.  Make yours too.