Good morning Joni,

Thanks for this Post,  made me do some thinking.  Yes, I also have a room that is just for my PC, a cozy chair, and bookcase full of book, All my AA book, and other books that I also cherish. Even have some beautiful 50' ficus and birch, when you look out the large window.

But my thinking went to the thoughts of it being icing on the cake.  So often I will find myself in a situation, where I need that "Sactuary" when I am not at home, and that "Secret Room" where I need to go, can be accessed anywhere. Can recall how for a few years, I needed to sit in the middle of a Trial, and needed to be in that "space" more times than not, and it was always available to me in a large crowd.

Once last week, I was feeling extra stress, you know the kind where you can feel the stress of something "overriding everything else".  Stopped, (well did not actually stop) but I stopped the thought process, and began Praying one of my favorite Prayers. Sometimes I am amazed at how when we Pray, amoung others, and just turn the volumn up on that Prayer, it will override any situation.  And that is what I call my inner "Santuary."

This Post made be go back to a memory of an Ophra Winfry show, where many Scolars were talking about the issue of abundance.  And the conclusion was that in lies deep, deep inside us, that is where the true abundance lives, and with that is the Sactuary.

Think I got really off-topic here, you were speaking about the true benefits of a little space that can take on a Spiritual Santuary, and well, I was going into the other stuff, the inside stuff, whole different topic.  Probably way too early in the morning to be doing any Posting, haha.

Thanks, Joni

Baloney Brains.... so what do you expect??? (laughing) 

Years ago, there was a program, behavior modification actually, called Mind Springs. Big rage in California, shoot, back in the late 70s I believe. During some of the visual exercises, you built your favorite place you wanted to be, down to the finest details, in your mind. And that is where you would go to work on "stuff". Even tho I left most of that program somewhere in the dust, I still held onto that place in my mind, where I can go no matter what, for renewal. Used it for years. I always thought that if there is a heaven, then that is where I want it to be. ( it was an old cabin deep in the woods.)

Now, I also have a room that is both office and guest room. I have a huge bay window that overlooks the front of the yard and woods. I can hear the birds when I work in here. I have an old, tiered dresser where I have a statue of Gaia and some shells, special stones, and candles for meditation and prayer. A poster of David Bowie from Labyrinth, and my Grandfathers Mason degree are on the walls. I have special spiritual books in here along with fabric swatches spread hither and yon. All in all, it looks very much like the place I had in my mind for so many years.

A girlfriend that I haven't seen in awhile dropped by yesterday, and came in here to look at something. She mentioned that she just loved the feel of this room. I do to. It is the outer court of my inner sanctum, and truly, I feel often like I slip out of the mundane and into the sacred when I come in here to work. Good thought Joni, made me stop and think about those "hidden gardens of the mind and soul". Love Wren

Sanctuaries?  "Inside the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous"

And yaaa Ryan!!  Clean your damned toilet....

Hot tip.....I just throw the cat in...and she splahes around for a few minutes..before climbing out eh....gets the whole thing spotless...I also add shampoo...so she gets squeeky clean at the same time.:)

It works..