July 8, 2012
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Heaven for a home
When I was staying in Manila as a college student, I was used to waking up in the morning with our neighbor's loud angry voice dictating instructions to her husband and children, who can't seem to get what she was saying.
Difficulties have made it hard for us to have a home that is happy and fulfilled.
There is just too much tension from work and from the outside that we bring to our homes, and we welcome these tensions.
In the morning, the first thing that we do is to make coffee and open the radio, blasting the angry discontent voice of the radio announcer criticizing politicians and whoever or whatever disappointments he encountered the previous day or the night before.
When we reach the office, we scour through the newspaper with bad and depressing news written all over it, or with sexy beautiful bodies that you think you can only desire to have.
And then at home, we open the television to again listen to the day's depressing stories.
It is no wonder really why there would be so much tension at home. We are turning our homes into hell by welcoming so much sadness, so much tension, and so much anger.
Its time to make our homes into heaven, heaven for a home.
As much as this iron aged world is filled with stories of sadness and despair, triggering anger and discontent, it doesn't mean that we should bring the garbage into our homes.
Do you want to fill your homes with garbage?
Photo credit: wallcoo.com | Video credit: Garbage/YouTube
Comments (12)
Yep, for their own purposes, they shovel the garbage at us till we run after it like a dog chasing a stick. This situation will worsen unless we guard against it. Thanks for the rec btw; I hope you got a copy.
@darkoozeripple - :D thank you... unfortunately, its no longer available for free
The world we live in is a mess, but our Heavenly home is not a mess
http://www.amazon.com/Zorn-Legend-Days-Come-ebook/dp/B004N84WLS/ref=la_B002UV8QTE_1_3_title_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1341752356&sr=1-3
In the USA it's now 9 a.m. (Eastern time), and should show as free till midnight, which it is doing when I go to the page. Try changing the regional settings to to New York or Boston; anywhere in the USA. If Amazon's site is reading from your cookies that you are in the Philipinnes, it will refuse to give you a price due to trade restrictions. This happens to me if I go onto UK Amazon with my regional settings set to Toronto.
Also - this just occurred to me - be sure you are on the Kindle page, not the paperback.
Great post
As a person that no longer watches much tv let alone the 'news' networks, I am constantly amazed when I happen to see how crazy and fast paced it has all become. I remember years and years ago you just watched the news. Nowadays they have news with two or three ticker like things scrolling across the bottoms and sides of the screen. Commercials just give me a headache. All of it together just makes my head spin.
I'll just continue taking my morning tea out to the garden, and have breakfast with the birds and the sunrise tyvm! Great post.
3 years ago i changed everything in my life. i still have a tv, but only watch it if there's a particular netflix i want to see. i wake up 2 1/2 hours before i have to be at work so i can do yoga, meditate and center my mind before the day. most evenings are filled with some walking or other exercise or watering the garden. listening to music with my partner or reading a bit perhaps. our home is our haven and i wish more people would think about it as you've said here.... but, we are all different and i can only create MY own reality, not theirs. namaste my xanga friend
@darkoozeripple - :( been a long time since I came back here... gosh... didn't even catch it...
@callmebabyangelcrazy8890 - thank you...
@spinner_mom - that is an awesome idea...
@Southland - so true... we can only decorate our own homes
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