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Of homes and houses...

I'm cleaning out and de-cluttering....making way for new carpet which is coming next week (I think).
Now, I am easily distractable and found myself getting mentally "lost" in come of the things I have come across....
1) I found my copy of "Anam Cara, a Book of Celtic Wisdom" by John Donohue. I had never stopped to read it. So last night I began.
It is beautiful, about being a friend to yourself and all of creation.
I can relate it to the "non-resistance" and "acceptance " (as in "Thy will be done." The prayer that never fails ...Jan Karon) I have been hearing Eckhart Tolle speak about.
One quote from the first chapter I really loved, "To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul."
SOOOOO....I did a collage of a house. This one has four rooms. Body. Mind. Emotion. Spirit. According to wisdom from India, one should visit each room of the home each day for a balanced life!


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2) Something else I came across while moving all these "things" was this photo.


It is connected to a moment of synchronicity.
My mother and I were going to a quilt show in June, a few years ago. She had just told me that she had talked to my brother, and he had been cutting hay. However he was concerned because it was such a rainy week.
When we looked at the raffle quilt offered by the quilters holding the show, the theme was houses. There were many wonderful blocks of special, sheltering homes. The last block however, was of a small home in the distance, a tractor in the foreground, a hill with hay lying over it and a dark stormy sky. The maker had embroidered a verse about "Hay on the ground and rain in the forecast!" I told my mother to purchase a chance on the quilt because it was surely her quilt. She did and of course, her name was drawn!
She then gave the quilt to my brother and his wife!