@HomewithDean - Homily 4/17

I hope no one ever gets the wrong idea about what I’m constantly pushing forward during our time together. I don’t want your home to consume you. I want it to serve you. I don’t care if it lives up to some arbitrary ever-changing standard. I want it to live up to your standards and I want to give you permission to raise those standards until they are worthy of who you really are when you are being your best self. <br /><br />I’m well aware of how the home improvement world presents itself in media these days. It’s rather silly really. Voyeuristic, unrealistic, clearly vapidly entertaining on some level, but in the end, largely unhelpful. And equally sad, I know how the design world—with its air of posh sophistication and insatiable lust for the next new thing—is constantly calling you to never be satisfied, and always consume more and more, all in the name of living someone else’s rich and famous life instead of encouraging you to find contentment by discovering YOUR own best life. <br /><br />Your best life … THAT is what I’m all about. So I’m here every week to address real issues in real homes without taking ourselves too seriously and without all the trumped up drama. And I’m here to promote design. Really really good design. Design is an act of intention, and I want you being intentional with your life. Yes, all sorts of things happen to us that are outside of our control, but in my mind that only underscores the importance of making the most of what we can. And even in those things beyond our control, things tend to work out best for those of us who make the best of the way things work out.<br /><br />So every week I encourage you to act with intention toward your home, to design your home as one step in the larger journey of becoming intentional at designing your life. To find your True North and set sail with your hand at the wheel. <br /><br />I’ll share with you one of my all time favorite quotes. One that so deeply resonates with me and has been a compass point in my own life. The great Robert Thurman