I move house in a week’s time. The process so far has been really easy and I’ve felt totally humbled and grateful to be able to move somewhere so beautiful (it’s only 200m from where I am now which helps!). That said, it’s only in the last couple of weeks I’ve ‘allowed’ myself to be excited about it.
A common thing I hear from my clients is that they don’t want to get too excited or get their hopes up, in case something goes wrong. For me, it wasn’t so much that I was scared something could go wrong and I would be disappointed, but more that I wasn’t sure what was going to happen and why it was happening.
ACIM teaches that life happens for us and that with every choice we make, we can choose to have the fear use it for it’s purposes or love use it for it’s purposes. I had no interest in moving to a nice house just because it was a nice house. That sounds very spoilt but I have realised over time that the material world doesn’t hold much value in terms of well-being. Yes, it can feel very important to have a roof over our heads and food on the table in order to allow us to move more from a space of love, but more than that we can miss the point entirely.
The last few weeks I really looked inwards and asked what this move was for. How could it be used for love? I have come to realise that this house will be the first home that has been set up to welcome visitors. I’ve travelled and rented and lived in remote areas where it was difficult for anyone to come and visit me. This house is warm and inviting and has space to receive people. That is why this house showed up for me and that is why I’m now excited about it. I can welcome people and community and friends and share the love.
I invite you to get curious about everything and anything in your life and ask, why is this showing up for me? How can I let love use it?