Home Blooms First In Your Heart

Home is a feeling… It is a place you relax, do crafts, cook and eat meals, entertain, and lounge about in. A place where you recover your soul when you come home from a stressful day at work. Home is a place where you surround yourself with what makes you and your family happy.

HOME

Home… is a place in your heart
That you carry with you
Wherever you go
Taking along relationships, you’re never apart.

Whether living alone,
Or surrounded,
There’s always a place for those you love
Within the mind’s invisible zone.

Rest in that space
Ethereal, transcendental…
Quiet or busy beyond belief
You carry it all to whatever place.

Trina Astor-Stewart

Home is an idea that is first imagined.

Whether you live alone or with family, your home atmosphere is what is important. The presence of everyone in it contributes to its hominess.

We all have a different image of what our home should be like, how it should look and how all the intricacies of it should function for the ease and flow of daily life and everyone who lives there. We all wish for our dream space. We don’t achieve it all at once. Sometimes it takes a lifetime; sometimes, it is only a faraway yearning.

Whatever your home is like. You can start making it what you desire. Now, at this moment… it blooms first in your heart and then becomes a reality little by little every day.

How do you create a home and not just a house?

• Create feelings of harmony with family members.
• Talk things out well before going to bed at night, make peace before sleep
• Give everyone the freedom to be themselves. It takes all of us!
• Appreciate
• Say thank you, and give hugs often. Catch your children doing something good. Use praise rather than criticism.
• When something needs correcting in another… Ask yourself if you need correcting first. Find peace first within yourself, then address the issues at hand. We can all improve. We just need the right motivation.
• Be respectful of friends and neighbors. Remember the lessons your mom taught you. “Play nice in the sandbox. Speak kindly to others, and they will speak kindly to you.”
• Forgive and Forget.
• Forgive Yourself First.
• Reconcile your heart if you are feeling alone. Remember the memories of glad times.
• Write a poem about the whole thing, about how you feel in this moment. Read it in the future and remember you carry all your feelings with you wherever you go. Even if you can’t have all of your loved ones with you, remember there is an invisible zone in your mind where all the good is, and you are never alone.
• “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” Unless it is part of your job.
• Take time to talk in real time, not just text on the phone.
• Do something nice for someone every day.
• Tidy up around you. Put things away.
• Enjoy crafts and games together.
• When you are feeling sad, take a long bath. Let all your worries go down the drain.
• Fix the things you can today, leave alone the things you can’t. Start again …another day.
• Remember, you are not ‘perfect’ either. We are all doing the best we can do.
• Read something inspirational.
• Draw a happy picture in your coloring book.
• Remember, home is a feeling you create together with your family.