Peace Begins at Home

I just got back from a week’s vacation in Montreal (actually in Brossard, just south of Montreal) where I visited my sister, Rebecca. We had a lot of fun times, particularly shopping, shopping, and more shopping. She took me to many of her favourite stores. She also introduced me to Irina of Salon Coiffmania who gave me a wonderfully relaxing manicure. If you’re ever in Brossard, I highly recommend her.

Rebecca and I also spent the week FLYing. FLY is an acronym for “Finally Loving Yourself” and it comes from the website www.flylady.com. On the surface, this appears to be a site about helping you with housework, but it goes so much deeper than that. If you’re wondering what this has to do with peace, read this excerpt from an email I received this morning. FlyLady (Marla Cilley) talks a lot about how to have peace at home. Her mailing list has over 300,000 members and thousands more sign up each day. I’ve barely begun her baby steps, and I feel so much better already. The people I share my home with have noticed the difference, too!

Dear Friends,

I got up in the middle of the night with the song Let There Be Peace on Earth ringing in my head. I wrote it down on my notepad that I keep in my bathroom. I got up this morning to see what I had written and I can't get those words out of my head.

Peace does begin at home! We have been tossing out our clutter for the last few days! Less clutter is the beginning to finding your peace at home. You deserve to live in a home that hugs you! Start today by clearing out a little area of your home! Take the babysteps we have been talking about. Your clutter is representive of the clutter that is going on in your head. Clear out some physical clutter and you will be releasing some of that mind clutter along with it.

Let there be peace on Earth.

FlyLady