Sharinghula

The art of decorating and the art of creating sacred space start with the same elements, according to Mary Groves.7 As codirector of the Sacred Art of Living Center in Bend, Oregon, Groves is intimately involved with planning the ambience of programs and presentations as well as content. “Both decor and sacred space involve beautiful items,” she says. Both involve the use of color themes, fabrics, live plants, birds, or fish—and design, the manner in which they’re put together—to change a room.”
After completing an interior decorating course earlier in her life, Groves realized that the only people who could afford her service would be the wealthy. She says that idea turned her off:
“I wanted to do this for people who shop atWal-Mart. I wanted to go into somebody’s home and help them rearrange what they’ve already got.”
Working for years with Hospice, Groves realized by visiting people’s homes as a volunteer and bereavement coordinator that beyond the way a home is decorated, everyone has altars in their living spaces. We all display things that are important to us,” she says. Groves realized that the element of s/gnificance is what makes them not just decorations, but sacred objects. ‘Rather than putting my collection of mementos ortrophies on this shelf because I’m proud of them,” Groves says, ‘I recognize it’s more than thatThese things represent a lot of energy that I’ve put into Iife.They stand for who I am.The intention with which I place them make them more than just something to look at.They become an extension of me, an expression of my soul.”
Groves now creates altars and sacred spaces for educational workshop environments—the Art of Spiritual Discernment, the Sacred Art of Dying, and Taize Vespers worship, an interfaith prayer service. My belief is that all things are sacred,” she says. What we do with them either depletes us or inspires us to live in a better way.” Groves’s interior settings create a sense of God’s presence as well as beautiful backdrops that become centers of spiritual focus.
How might you transform the interior decoration in your home into sacred space? How might you create altars to God through your home?
• Pay attention to light, arrangement, and symbolism. An altar can be set up anywhere. It may even be carried with you in a
small box. just a little candle placed with care on a desk can transform practical space to a place of prayer
• Altars are made when you carefully arrange photographs of people you love or miss, items that represent places you’ve been, objects in which you’ve invested energy, colors that
have a particular significance.These may change the emotive
content of a room.
As Groves says, An altar is nothing more than a place to remember someone or something that is important to you.” It is a place to inspire you to live on and to live well.

Tired of seeing those drafty, out of fashioned style looks of your house parts? Or, do you feel uncomfortable of working in your office table every time you saw those dusty, sticking and inefficient windows? Well, there is now a solution to all of your problems.

There is now a technology which can enlighten even the smallest part of your house or office. New state of the art Penguin Windows designed to fully restore the beauty of your window section. Known to be the largest window replacement company that you can trust when it comes to replacing your window. Giving you the restoration for your windows as they provide you the top rated product that you needs. Home contractors which can simply define it as a creative improvement for your windows. Giving you the high-quality replacement windows right for those homeowners who wanted to make their homes safer for their family, giving the house more attractive and energy-efficient windows. They can promise you a full customers satisfaction not just with the windows but with the service that they can give to their clients. with what they are offering, aside from the materials to be used. Variety of replacement windows. Now turning your window to a better one would not that much cost. Plus you can be sure that the quality of the window are on a high standard. For the entire replacement window items are one hundred percent all original items tested to withstand all fortuitous events.

My nocturnal dreams have moved me into various kinds of homes. Usually these serve as a container for something going on in the rooms, but at least once the structure itself had the starring role. In this dream I was building a large house for which there was much to be decided and accomplished. It was a house I intended to live in. The outside looked like a classy hunting lodge. Inside, the vaulted ceiling showed off an exquisite round window of pink and red stained glass. Sightseers were taking tours through the interior, admiring it, going up and down the huge staircase. I found myself, however, walking around on the roof. It seemed there were problems in the construction process; the builder and I were trying to figure out what to do about them. I walked over to a steep sloop over the front door and looked down at the tourists coming and going.. . and then I woke up.
Researchers say dreams about a house under construction indicate a person who is self-directed. Dreams about rooftops express letting go of artificial restrictions. ‘What a switch from my original dream many years before! I was moved by the fact that in this latter dream I was integrating the picture of the country church/haunted house. They were becoming one, my home was becoming sanctuary, both beautiftil and safe. Instead of being empty, it was filled with people. That I was going to finish it and live in it, I was not in doubt.