Keeping Tidy
My wife and I are working really hard to sell our town-home and get us and our three “energetic” children into a house with a yard where they can use some of their energy for good. I have run the mill of emotions working on the house and trying to get it ready to sell. From putting in a new floor, to painting the whole place, we have worked hard.
Then yesterday something crazy happened-we had a showing. I know, it blew me away too. In fact, it took me completely off guard. I had ten minutes to get out of the house. My wife was out and I was left alone man-in my little garden. The worst part is I wasn’t really alone. I had the company of my “energetic” children and the parasites of clutter and crumbs spread through out the house.
I had to get the house presentable in ten minutes. A feat which really took me a half an hour (lucky they were late). Massive amounts of emotion surfaced as I wondered very loudly why there were cookie crumbs in the master bedroom. (They were not mine-I promise). There were many more things that were out of place and I was fixing the bathroom sink to make it even sweeter.
After I got back from the store and the showing was over, I thought about what went wrong. I had prepared my house, but my house wasn’t prepared. I hadn’t kept up on the job I had worked so hard on. And what is even worse, is the weeks getting the house ready is maintained in an hour or less a day. I didn’t leave the house that day in good standing. It was mediocre at best.
Some times our lives are like the house. We work so hard to take the weight off, or to get to a spiritual plane. What ever it is, we need to spend that extra energy to maintain the energy we have worked for. Whether it is making a meal plan at the beginning of the week, or taking time for sun salutation in the morning, it is important to keep in mind to be watchful on the day to day upkeep. Don’t lose what you have work so hard for. And keep a good emotional level when the pressures come into your life. I wish I would have done so…
