Its been a crazy weekend - so much happening at once - and the week was crowded, too, like the mall on a rainy day. I accomplished much, but little of it was on my list of things to do, and most was a complete surprise.
I receive weekday inspirational emails from the website www.tut.com, which is also known as Notes from the Universe, created by Mike Dooley, an inspirational writer and speaker. Each Monday through Friday morning, I look forward to my TUT email. A recent message was:
Want to move a mountain, Becky?
Befriend it.
Call me,
The Universe
Like so many of the TUT messages, this one made me think. So, is the mountain I want to move Mount Dora? No, I don’t think so. I don’t want to move Mount Dora, I want to embrace Mount Dora by living there. So, what mountain do I want to move? The movement has to be where I am right now. I need to move the mountain that is my current life so I can move forward to the new life I want to create in Mount Dora. In my last post I talked about physically cleaning and clearing out to make room for new. I started that, but did not get as far along on the project as I would have liked when I read what The Universe had to say. Besides, making space, how can I befriend my mountain?
Recently, I’ve been disheartened every time I looked at my living room. Almost two years ago I wanted to buy new living room furniture, but when the decision was made for my daughter and grandchildren, then 3 ½ and 1 ½, to live with us, I decided, very wisely, it was bad timing for new furniture. My old pieces, which were already looking worn, have survived nearly two years of additional abuse from a large family, including two small children, and have not aged well. The children are old enough now that I feel safe buying some “new” furniture, but have put off doing so because I have my mind focused on my future home in Mount Dora. This week I decided to take the Universe’s advice and befriend my mountain.
If I am unsatisfied with my current situation, it needs to change in whatever ways, large or small, that I can handle and that will make my life, here and now, more enjoyable and more comfortable. If that means a change in furniture, then that is one way I can befriend my mountain. Figuring that “new” was still a challenge with small kids in residence, I opted for used, but new to me. With the help of a friend, I found a nice sofa and loveseat on Craig’s List and it now sits proudly in my living room. Only a year old, a year spent with a young couple with no kids and no yen for partying, the set looks new. My daughter’s brother will replace the glass tops of our current coffee table and two end tables with black marble pieces from his workshop and then we will paint the bases a silvery gray - a nice change from the current tan and gold bases. A few rearrangements will be made of the existing furniture as I move out a tall wooden shelving unit and decide what to do with another smaller loveseat that does not match the new pieces very well. I already feel better about our home.
The Law of Attraction says that it is imperative to live with appreciation in the present even while manifesting the future. That is a hard concept to understand and to live. We are usually wanting to manifest something new because we are dissatisfied with what we presently have. So, how can we befriend what we have, which means to embrace and enjoy it and be grateful for it, when we really want something else? Tricky, very tricky. It means identifying what is working, or at least what is not too bad, in our current situation and concentrating on that, trying to make it even better. It means looking for ways, even little ways, to improve what exists now so we can have a sense of satisfaction and, hopefully, pleasure in the present. Most of all, it means realizing that our contentment mostly comes from within - from using our abilities to make the best out of any situation. Sitting and waiting for something in the future is a complete waste of time and totally neglectful of what we have now. Can The Universe or God trust us with a futuristic something-better if we cannot take care of and make the best of what is our present maybe-not-perfect reality?
So, my goal is to “HTV” my home. A little almost-new, some presto-change-o, a bit of re-purposing and a tad of re-arranging and I can make a living space that was looking tired and worn, fresh and inviting. Yes, ma’am, I can befriend this mountain! And, by befriending this mountain, I am embracing what is the gift of now. I am also helping others. A curb alert led to a young, financially-challenged young man picking up my old furniture as well as a couple of other items I was giving away. Life is a cycle and moving forward really means moving forward in a circle, not linearly. I love the thought that what I released has a new home with someone who is appreciating what manifested in his now, even if that something was a little worn. Perhaps he is befriending his mountain, just as I am.
I receive weekday inspirational emails from the website www.tut.com, which is also known as Notes from the Universe, created by Mike Dooley, an inspirational writer and speaker. Each Monday through Friday morning, I look forward to my TUT email. A recent message was:
Want to move a mountain, Becky?
Befriend it.
Call me,
The Universe
Like so many of the TUT messages, this one made me think. So, is the mountain I want to move Mount Dora? No, I don’t think so. I don’t want to move Mount Dora, I want to embrace Mount Dora by living there. So, what mountain do I want to move? The movement has to be where I am right now. I need to move the mountain that is my current life so I can move forward to the new life I want to create in Mount Dora. In my last post I talked about physically cleaning and clearing out to make room for new. I started that, but did not get as far along on the project as I would have liked when I read what The Universe had to say. Besides, making space, how can I befriend my mountain?
Recently, I’ve been disheartened every time I looked at my living room. Almost two years ago I wanted to buy new living room furniture, but when the decision was made for my daughter and grandchildren, then 3 ½ and 1 ½, to live with us, I decided, very wisely, it was bad timing for new furniture. My old pieces, which were already looking worn, have survived nearly two years of additional abuse from a large family, including two small children, and have not aged well. The children are old enough now that I feel safe buying some “new” furniture, but have put off doing so because I have my mind focused on my future home in Mount Dora. This week I decided to take the Universe’s advice and befriend my mountain.
If I am unsatisfied with my current situation, it needs to change in whatever ways, large or small, that I can handle and that will make my life, here and now, more enjoyable and more comfortable. If that means a change in furniture, then that is one way I can befriend my mountain. Figuring that “new” was still a challenge with small kids in residence, I opted for used, but new to me. With the help of a friend, I found a nice sofa and loveseat on Craig’s List and it now sits proudly in my living room. Only a year old, a year spent with a young couple with no kids and no yen for partying, the set looks new. My daughter’s brother will replace the glass tops of our current coffee table and two end tables with black marble pieces from his workshop and then we will paint the bases a silvery gray - a nice change from the current tan and gold bases. A few rearrangements will be made of the existing furniture as I move out a tall wooden shelving unit and decide what to do with another smaller loveseat that does not match the new pieces very well. I already feel better about our home.
The Law of Attraction says that it is imperative to live with appreciation in the present even while manifesting the future. That is a hard concept to understand and to live. We are usually wanting to manifest something new because we are dissatisfied with what we presently have. So, how can we befriend what we have, which means to embrace and enjoy it and be grateful for it, when we really want something else? Tricky, very tricky. It means identifying what is working, or at least what is not too bad, in our current situation and concentrating on that, trying to make it even better. It means looking for ways, even little ways, to improve what exists now so we can have a sense of satisfaction and, hopefully, pleasure in the present. Most of all, it means realizing that our contentment mostly comes from within - from using our abilities to make the best out of any situation. Sitting and waiting for something in the future is a complete waste of time and totally neglectful of what we have now. Can The Universe or God trust us with a futuristic something-better if we cannot take care of and make the best of what is our present maybe-not-perfect reality?
So, my goal is to “HTV” my home. A little almost-new, some presto-change-o, a bit of re-purposing and a tad of re-arranging and I can make a living space that was looking tired and worn, fresh and inviting. Yes, ma’am, I can befriend this mountain! And, by befriending this mountain, I am embracing what is the gift of now. I am also helping others. A curb alert led to a young, financially-challenged young man picking up my old furniture as well as a couple of other items I was giving away. Life is a cycle and moving forward really means moving forward in a circle, not linearly. I love the thought that what I released has a new home with someone who is appreciating what manifested in his now, even if that something was a little worn. Perhaps he is befriending his mountain, just as I am.
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