There is no place like Home

Our furniture arrived today. All the empty space is now filled with tables, chairs, sofas, lamps, beds, etc. It now feels like we have a home. We have traveled extensively over this past Summer from the Philippines to Argentina making a quick stop for a day in Utah, back to Manila just to turn around to come back to Buenos Aires and again on to Utah and back to Argentina, the place we now call HOME.

I remember the day when we finally got the keys to our apartment. There really is nothing quite like the feeling of walking into your brand- new home. Such a great feeling. Not to mention the fact that there is nothing quite like sleeping in your own bed at night after spending too many nights at hotels. 

The Dalai Lama said, “A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.” I believe that’s true. Our home should be our sanctuary and it should be filled with love and peace. When we have that sanctuary in life it allows us to be far more courageous in venturing out into the world to explore and have adventures and experience new and exciting things because we know that the safety of home will be there waiting for us to return to.

It takes effort to create a good feeling in our homes. It takes exercising patience and kindness with our family, it takes some cleaning and organizing to make it pleasant, and the smell of homemade bread or freshly baked cookies never hurts either. I made a batch of cookies to share with the people helping with the furniture. 

I think you can always feel the spirit of people’s homes. And that spirit has nothing to do with how nice the home is, or how extravagant the furnishings are…I think the spirit you feel comes from how the people living there feel about one another and how they treat one another within that home. Each of us can impact the spirit we create in our own home through our words and our actions and our prayers.

I am grateful for Daniel who has helped me create the spirit of LOVE in our home. Because of my husband, for me there truly is NO PLACE LIKE HOME! 

Con amor,

Vero