The Arbor in the Dream Garden

Last year I started my Sacred Souls blog in March with an entry title The Road not Taken in reference to my favorite poem by Robert Frost.  I was at a crossroads and I needed to start down a path so I began writing down my thoughts that had been accumulating for twenty years about God and humanity. This week I realized again I am at a crossroads.

The hair salon I use, called the Louve, displays artwork of local artists.  This month a series of beautiful watercolors painted by Susan Winter filled the salon. Her painting of an arbor in country garden on a hill reminded me of a garden spot that has special meaning to me.  As I initially walked around the salon I realized that the watercolors depicted my dream home.   On Saturday I returned to the Louve and purchased five watercolors – the arbor in the garden, Iris, a cat on a chair in a garden, a young boy with a dog, and a little girl with a Teddy bear looking out the window with a snow scene.   None of the watercolors depicted a house, but had all the elements of what I wanted in a home – my Christmas House.   I realized this week that in my heart that what address I am at doesn’t matter only that I am surrounded by the love of family and pets and that is what is most important to me.  God has given me many blessings and gifts but I have never had a family and everything else comes second to that dream.  I will be fifty-five in October and the dream seems impossible, but I have faith that God answers our innermost dreams whether it is on Earth or in Heaven.