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There’s No Place Like Home.
Submitted by: Kathleen
Southwest MichiganI am a firm believer in The Secret and use it daily!
I am a single Mother with two sons in college. Their father died a few years ago so I am our sole means of support. I make enough to get by but there’s not much extra. We lived for more than 20 years in a very old, two story house. It needed a lot of work. The wiring was bad, the furnace was old and shut off regularly in the middle of the cold winter nights. But the worst thing was the roof. It had begun leaking badly and needed replacing.
I tried my best to ignore what was wrong with the house and focus on what was right. I decided to love the house as it was while I imagined what I wanted it to be. I made a list of all the things I wanted to do to the house, room by room and titled it “Grand Finale”. As I completed small projects I checked them off the list.
One night I was sitting in my living room alone shopping on the internet for an affordable coffee table. It was raining very hard which is unusual for February in Michigan. The rain stopped and I remember hearing what sounded like a herd of horses running by and then I felt pressure on my ears. It was a tornado. I ran towards the basement but only made it as far as a small closet. I crouched down inside it listening to the windows shatter and the sound of a huge tree falling on the roof.
That was a little more than a year ago. I am writing this in my brand new $300,000 home. Every day I feel like I am living in a dream! It is so beautiful and everything is new and perfect.
February 28, 2017 I got my grand finale and it checked off every box on my list in the matter of a few minutes!