home

Home.  This home.  Our home for a time.  A year ago felt like another’s home but sweetly called us to make it our own.  It bore the promise of life anew.  Alas, we discover wherever we go, there we are.  We bring all parts with us to anything new...the good, the bad, the ugly.  The backdrop has changed but the foreground looks and feels distinctly familiar.  I think the same will hold true for that magical place we will travel to when we exit these bodies in search of what lays beyond.  For a moment the newness will shock us into ultra alertness.  Then we will realize it all looks and feels familiar.  It is tempting to believe that being liberated from the bad and the ugly would be something desirable.  Yet we so value our freedom to make choices, the same kinds of choices that brought us to where we stand right now.  It is a benevolent gift to be given the freedom to choose the same or something different.  This home we call The Nurturing Hearth carries our energy.  It is becoming a reflection of those of us who take up residence here and of the visitors and guests who leave their indelible mark.  Each time we change, the reflection looking back changes.  Each time we make a change to it, the very difference transforms us into something new as well.  Home.

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