Making Room

In the spirit of spring, I did some house cleaning recently; man had cardboard collected on my back porch... :)  My attempts at leaf mulching and dumping the mulch on the back garden of ferns last autumn didn't make the leaves go away like I had hoped so I had to burn some of that to allow the ferns to emerge.  I also cleaned my kitchen windows on the outside so I could clearly see the life outside my house when doing the sometimes mundane chore of dishes.


Ah, but the finest bit of cleaning I did was with relationships.  I decided to clean out remnants of past relationships that were hanging around, but not completely fulfilling... one actually draining at times.  I gathered the dried flowers I had kept and brought them out to the back garden... I sprinkled the petals on the fern garden and thanked them for their presence.  Then I burned some candles in the space I had them and asked for all the stagnant energy to be removed.

I considered it a controlled burn as they do in fields sometimes to encourage growth.  It's not that I cut all ties to these people, some are still dear friends, but I cut the attachment that was not serving me.

What followed in the next week was simply precious!  By clearing out these drains on my attention and love, I allowed space for one giant heart to enter my life.  A heart so gentle, so open, so dear that I NEEDED all that space to hold him.

I'm blessed.  I'm grateful.  I'm full of love and joy.  EE




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