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Today's
Meditation:
I'm not sure that I would refer to our day-to-day
lives as "the wars," but Montaigne's words are
very profound here. So many of us tend to see our
homes as functional places-- places to eat, to sleep, to
store our furniture and our cars, to shower, and on and
on. When we see it as a functional place, then it
can't serve as a retreat, a place where we can find a way
to rejuvenate ourselves and gather our strength for
continuing on in our lives.
If we do treat our homes as retreats, if we do turn them
into comfortable places where we can renew ourselves and
our spirits, then we can give ourselves an important edge
when things do get difficult and the stress levels
rise. Wars or not, we all face stress and
challenges, and if we're well prepared spiritually to deal
with those things, then they won't debilitate us when they
rear their heads in our lives.
If we do want our homes to be resting-places, then we need
to take the time to make them places that we love to come
to, places where we love to spend time. That doesn't
mean spending tons of money on decorations, but it does
mean trying to eliminate clutter and finding things that
are aesthetically pleasing with which to fill our living
space. It means minimizing television and noise, and
keeping the home as a peaceful place where we can find
pleasant shelter from the storms of life.
Our homes should be our allies in our journeys through
life. If we make them into pleasant places where we
love to be, they can serve us very well as we face the
normal stresses and strains of the lives that we're
living.
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