A Spiritual Journey

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 It's Sunday and I thought a good day to write about the past few months since moving in with our son.   We've experienced some changes.

Moving from our condo to our son's house kind of threw me off my Spiritual journey.  I haven't quite been myself as of late, but as my wife says, it always takes me awhile to adjust after a move.  I began settling into the condo about the time of my birthday and with the holidays over, I'm adjusting again.  I always adapt, but sometimes it just takes awhile.  I never felt quite adjusted again here until my wife and I began making the bedroom into our bedroom with our own photos and paintings.

We put the finishing touches up just this week and I'm beginning to get settled since we've decided to stay here for awhile.  But it took some time to leave the condo behind.  I'm getting back into my Spiritual groove and I believe that now I am getting there.  The other day, my wife and I talked about my adjustments here.

 Adjustments my age aren't easy and maybe I miss having a place that is our own.  We've been fairly unsettled since we got here in Florida.  But somehow, putting up our own stuff in our bedroom helps a lot.  I'm beginning to settle in again. 

Spiritual people have a difficult time adjusting to changes.  We need some continuity in our lives.  I kind of lost it there for awhile with the holidays and all, but I'm beginning to adjust again.  My pipes have helped a lot and I seem to be more interested in the world and continue to work on my writing.  I write many things no one sees often deleting a lot more than I post or send.  But I feel keeping my mind active helps me a lot.  The holidays were just a distraction.  

But now I seem to be settling back in to where I was beginning in September.  Making a decision to stay here for now has helped a lot since we're no longer worried about finding another place to live.  We can just settle in here and begin to relax again.  Especially now that we've made the bedroom more our bedroom.  Continuity always helps a Spiritual  person maintain their Spirituality.  It's my thinking this house IS blessed.  

So, my point is that I'm getting it back.  I've told my son that if he wants to work on the patio I can smoke my pipe elsewhere.   This house is plenty big for all of us.  I think the difference is that in the condo we knew when we were leaving when we arrived.  Here we are taking it one month at a time and we're in no hurry to move on.  That helps a lot.  We didn't put up anything personal at the condo and here we have.  Every home needs a woman's touch on what she'd like to do for a place.  I missed that at the condo.

So, this is about my Spiritual journey and I'm beginning to get back into my groove.  I just wasn't myself until I felt we made this place at a little bit our own.  I feel more settled now.  I'll be more like myself.  I have space for smoking my pipes and meditating and just feel more like we belong here.  Today it is my Nording Number 3 pipe with some Bailey's Front Porch.  Now, if only we had more sunshine and warmer temps.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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