Love Invested

Surround yourself with what you love and allow it to feed you.
                                                                                                           
A few years back, my husband and I had just finished replacing the old mailbox and post that sat out at the front of our yard gradually falling apart. It was no surprise that it looked much better. We painted the post grey and bought a dark green mailbox, so that it matched the grey of our Victorian farmhouse and the green of the shutters. I found myself looking for excuses to drive by the house or gaze out the window, just so I could admire the mailbox.
 
It reminds me of when I bought a new teakettle. I wanted one that looked old-fashioned to fit the look of our home. I wanted one without that annoying whistle that so many of the newer models have, and I wanted it to be stainless steel so I wouldn’t be scrubbing off its painted surface every time I cleaned it. I took the time to go to several stores and finally found the perfect tea kettle, stainless steel, no whistle, with a gracefully curved spout and shape. After I brought it home and placed it on the stove, I would walk through the kitchen, ostensibly on some other errand and glance casually at the stove. There sat the tea kettle, shining in the sun coming in our South facing windows, sitting ready for duty on the back burner. When I heated water for tea I would sit enthralled by the steam wafting up from the shiny spout in curling, white tendrils.
 
Lest you think I have several screws loose as I soliloquize about mail boxes and teapots, I believe there is a deeper meaning to the pleasure these bits and pieces of our lives give us. That is, these small pieces of our homes add up to become the whole, just as the small moments of our lives add up to become our whole life. They are in fact, a microcosm of the macrocosm, each bit being representative of the whole. Love invested in these bits and pieces is returned, over and over again whether those bits are a mailbox, a teapot or this moment right now in which we find ourselves.
 
How important is a mailbox or a teapot? How important is one moment of our lives? Is it worth putting the love, the focus and attention into this moment to make it the best it can be? This moment is fleeting, why bother? Because the love invested stays, though the moment passes by, and the love is harvested over and over.

​Love invested never stops giving back. 

​Photo by Emily Rudolph on Unsplash

Your Spiritual Toolbox

Surround yourself with what you love in your home and allow your home to support you energetically. We become so used to our homes and the things in them that we don’t really see them anymore as we go about our daily activities. Yet, we respond to what we see subconsciously, and it either supports us or drains us.
 
Walk through your home and one room at a time take note of the things you love, those you feel neutral about and those you actively dislike.
 
Do you love the lamp that you found at a second-hand shop while on vacation last year? Does it remind you of the fun you had? Do you love the shape and color of it? That love returns to you each time you see that lamp. It supports you energetically.
 
Do you dislike that picture on the wall given to you by your aunt? Do you keep it around because it was a gift and you don’t want to displease her? Does it remind you of unpleasant experiences? Let it go, now. That energy does not support you, it drains you.
 
How about those plain gray pot-holders hanging in the kitchen? Do you love them or do they feel neutral? Do they serve a purpose? Then they serve you but do not really support you. Keep them until you can replace them with one’s you love.
 
Make it your goal to surround yourself with what you love and feel supported by your home energetically. 

Soul Doors will be taking a brief hiatus as I'll be traveling to Iceland on a spiritual journey.  Look for our next post on Tuesday, March 26th. See you then!