Gifts for the home

Young Persons Mentor/Uplifted Parenting –

Gifts for the Home

Gifts for the home arrive through our respectful and loving treatment of each other.

As a practice, this gives us the peace we need to live together harmoniously.

Each time we choose to speak courteously, we invoke this peace.

By setting up routines for chores, we maintain orderly surroundings.

This creates a peaceful home to live in.

As we maintain the peace in our home, we add to the peace in the world.

Even when we bring the agitations of the world back home, we can diffuse their effects by the comfort of our gift of peace to ourselves.

Eating nutritious, satisfying food calms our bodies.

Preparing our food in community with each other offers time for informal exchange as work is shared.

These shared moments of input allow us to understand what our family members are dealing with.

We can simply listen in a supportive manner.

As problems arise, we can listen within before addressing solutions from our own experiences.

New problems arise in new contexts.

A different solution may come to mind as we all calm ourselves to listen within.

Getting a lot of things done quickly every day feels necessary.

Prioritizing restful times as part of the routines will help address the pressures which build up.

Day-to-day, moment-to-moment peace allows us to move harmoniously between events.

Peace becomes the standard.

It becomes the way we approach our life and the way we present life to our household.

This is the best gift we can provide.

Being rested and getting the support we need, allows us to run a harmonious household.

We can remain alert to the needs of every member and listen within for how to best address them.

Inspired Practices