Comments on: Home Is Where the Spirit Is http://thespiritualeclectic.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/home-is-where-the-spirit-is/ Because Spirituality Is Not One-Size-Fits-All Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:18:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: anglhugnu2 http://thespiritualeclectic.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/home-is-where-the-spirit-is/#comment-138 anglhugnu2 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:48:20 +0000 http://thespiritualeclectic.wordpress.com/?p=95#comment-138 A young man once said to me, as he visited my house, .."this house looks as if no one lives here." I really did not quite know how to take his comment. He would add later he felt "scared to actually move anything out of place in fear I might get upset." All of these impressions, all of these comments were made without my having ever to have said a thing. He would continue to say how he'd grown up in a home that looked "lived in...like someone actually lived in the house. Not like this one...this is crazy!" Well, I would visit that young man's home and find clothes, toys, and just about every piece of junk mail ever recieved filling up just about every open space available. Stepping over this or that was reminescent of the moves I'd made training for a high school football team. THIS PLACE definitely looked lived in. While I am no Felix Unger, of Odd Couple fame, I am most certainly not an Oscar Madison either. I do have a friend of the "Unger" type where the home is prestine in appearance. And, as described above I do know one who is comfortable being Oscar. I have always said a home pretty much defines, in part, how the person sees their Self and the world they would want to lie comfortably within. As I explained to my young friend, "I had always wanted to own a home where I could simply walk into any room and lay anywhere in the room and not have to worry about being comfortable. So...yes....Home is where the Spirit of your Life lives. AngllHugnU2 Author of IM with God A young man once said to me, as he visited my house, ..”this house looks as if no one lives here.”
I really did not quite know how to take his comment. He would add later he felt “scared to actually move anything out of place in fear I might get upset.” All of these impressions, all of these comments were made without my having ever to have said a thing.

He would continue to say how he’d grown up in a home that looked “lived in…like someone actually lived in the house. Not like this one…this is crazy!”

Well, I would visit that young man’s home and find clothes, toys, and just about every piece of junk mail ever recieved filling up just about every open space available. Stepping over this or that was reminescent of the moves I’d made training for a high school football team. THIS PLACE definitely looked lived in.

While I am no Felix Unger, of Odd Couple fame, I am most certainly not an Oscar Madison either. I do have a friend of the “Unger” type where the home is prestine in appearance. And, as described above I do know one who is comfortable being Oscar.

I have always said a home pretty much defines, in part, how the person sees their Self and the world they would want to lie comfortably within. As I explained to my young friend, “I had always wanted to own a home where I could simply walk into any room and lay anywhere in the room and not have to worry about being comfortable.

So…yes….Home is where the Spirit of your Life lives.

AngllHugnU2
Author of IM with God

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