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Old 02-03-2014, 03:13 AM   #1
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Default What can I add to our comfort today?

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Monday, February 3, 2014

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole . . . nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it . . .. It was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.
—J. R. R. Tolkien

Home is a place of comfort. When we go away and have to adjust to a different bed and someone else's cooking, we quickly discover how comfortable our own home is. Comfort in a home is more than just a familiar bed and favorite food; it is something we can give to each other. We can make home a place where we can relax and be ourselves without fear of rejection.

Each of us needs a special little place where we can come and seek refuge from the world, our own little "fort." Children are often busy making "forts," but all of us in the family need to work at making the place where we live together a fort where we can all gather for rest. What can I add to our comfort today?
Have a quiet me time and space. With my pain and sleep disorder, my sister informed me that she took offence when I go there, and feel the need to lie down. With chronic pain and fatigue, I never know when or how it is going to affect me, so I seldom go out. I am very sensitive to smells and noise because of the Fibromyalgia, so it is best I have my space where I can get my needs met. I know if I go to her place, I will be down for at least two days afterward. A lot of it is me and my attitude that I take there. Accept them for who they are, knowing that by choice I am going there because they are family.
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