A few months back, before our move, I came upon this gorgeous old window. It sat all alone in a thrift store, and when I spotted it across the room my heart began to race. Immediately I thought every other person there was eyeing it as well, and I didn’t think I could get over to it quick enough. Surely all the other people shopping wanted this diamond in the rough, right? By the time I got my hands on it, I most certainly looked like a crazy woman, having nearly sprinted over to lay claim on it.
As it turns out no one else had been drooling over it and the shop owner wanted it out of there, so I left having spent some pocket change for something I would most treasure. I thought to myself, oh I’ll take it over to our new place and find just the spot for it! Six months later, is it up? Nope it isn’t. Instead it has moved ever so slowly to various resting places; first in our room, then it moved next to our front door, and finally it is now behind the door.
This incredible old love that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on sits collecting dust (I know this because I did in fact dust it off just this morning). Why isn’t it up? Why has it relocated a handful of times without a permanent home? Most likely for the same reason so many of us don’t get out the good dishes, or use the expensive lotion.
It isn’t fair to our “stuff” and it isn’t fair to us.
Time waits for no one. Your home will never be “totally ready” and those important dinner guest might not arrive. We all have something – whether it be an old window, the good dishes, or that fancy body butter your hubbie bought you a few years back. So what, I’ll make a hole in the wall. Perhaps your little one will accidentally break a good dinner plate, and you know the lotion can be replaced. What good are these things if we allow them to sit coldly in a closet, or ahem, behind a door. We aren’t able to enjoy them.
My friends, I love my old window and I commit to having it up by the end of the week. Are you with me? What will you commit to bringing out from hiding this week?
