Thursday, April 3, 2008
What Lies Beneath
I have spent part of my day cleaning the main rooms of my house. It seems that part of all my days are always spent cleaning the main rooms of my house. I always want to make a good impression on anyone who visits. However, if any person were to venture up the stairs they would find an alternate universe. Clutter and disorder reign in the bedrooms. It dawned on me that my life in general is much this way. I am very good a cultivating the parts of me that everyone sees regularly and yet there is such work to be done on the inner self (or upstairs, as the metaphor goes.) I guess this would be a wisdom lesson I am learning; work must be done everywhere in order to make the house whole. Here's to spring cleaning!
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Your house sounds like mine. Our bedrooms are awful. So is the basement, I'm trying to work on that now. One thing I have noticed is how happy I feel when my house is clean, but how discouraged I feel when it isn't. I definitely think there is a link between personal well-being and a clean house! :)
This reminds me of a VT message so long ago where we talked about the tapestry--it was beautiful and flawless on both sides. Sometimes I feel like my tapestry is adequate and even pretty in some parts on the front, the part that people see but the back is a tangle of strings and threads with no order at all. In the cleaning analogy--my whole house is cluttered and stacked with piles. Underneath it all, it's pretty clean, but so much room for improvement. My task for the day--at least get the visible (to visitors) areas presentable so I don't feel I have to say "Please excuse the mess" to my own family :). Thanks for your good words of wisdom!
I forgot about that message until you mentioned it. That was a good one. Ah, the tapestry of my life. I think it's more like a fleece blanket.
At mutual this week the girls were taught how to correctly/efficiently clean by a professional cleaning woman. At the close she said, "All things spiritual are physical and all things physical are spiritual." I really like this idea. I've been thinking quite a bit about it and it applies to EVERYTHING!
Hmmmmm.....Fleece blanket huh?
Fleece blankets are the best! They are lovely to look at and touch, but are not so decorative as to be useless, or fragile, very effective for their purpose, easily cared for,highly resiliant, warm and comforting, multi-functional (blanket, pillow, stuffing, emergency proparedness, sofa cover,etc), and an all around modern approach to a historical necessity.
I suppose that one could be called far worse than a fleece blanket.
Congrats at arriving at a pretty discriptive analogy.
Linda Lou, (aka mom) I think that's the nicest thing anyone has said about me ever. (even as compared to a fleece blanket) Thank you so much. I love you!
Any time! And I mean it.
PS I love you too!
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