Are There Freeloaders On Your "Property"? Scrapbook to Reclaim, Heal and Get Closure

Take back your real estate! You invested into your life. Maybe it was a marriage, a childhood, raising your own kids, a job, a dream. But then the uninvited guests camped out all over your property. That property is your investment—time, effort, love, passion, work. You invested all those elements into this Project (raising kids, marriage, dream, etc.), but someone didn't see the “No Trespassing” signs. The "trespassers" could be anything that stole from your "investment":  Ingratitude, abuse, loss, disaster, illness, poor choices made by others, unfaithfulness, bitterness, and any kind of misfortune or action of others.  The land is ravaged, trashed, desolate. 

It is robbery to allow the freeloaders to stay on your property.

“They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.” – Micah 2:2, The Bible in Basic English

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10 New International Version.  

It’s time to take it back.  Rout them out! How?

1. Decide to. So much in life is all about our choices. Choice is the trump card in the hand of life. Choose to reclaim your real estate. 
2. Recognize and establish your real estate. Suppose it’s in the marriage realm.  Did you work so hard to have a good, marriage and your spouse failed you? Possibly you are now no longer married or your marriage is in a state of disarray.  Either way your real estate is the work and effort and love YOU put into the marriage. 
3. Occupy your land and "kick the bums out". I am not advocating any literal kicking out of any persons. This is all in the emotional realm. You can reclaim your emotional real estate by mandating: “This is mine. I worked hard for it. I will not let the disaster win. I will take what I put into this marriage and recognize it was not all for naught because what I did COUNTED even if it was not received by my spouse, even if it was rejected, and even if my marriage ended.”
4. Scrapbooking puts the Real in your "real estate".  It's not all just a mental exercise. So don't throw out those photos of him or her and all those menus and travel keepsakes. No, no. Even if they dredge up some painful memories. YOU know that you had intentions of good memories. So this stuff is yours. Claim it. Claim the good you intended. The good you tried so hard to make a reality. 
5. “Crop out” the bad painful memories after you accept what you learned from them. This is not literal. Do not cut the offending spouse out of photos with him/her and other loved ones in it.  You can maintain integrity of the memory and essentially, emotionally crop out the bad that now overshadows it. There are ways! Email me to find out more.
6. Narrate, narrate, narrate. Beyond "We went here" or we did such-and-such. Journal the work and the hopes you had. Captions also work wonders.
7. The Garden Grows-a Happy Ending. When you decide to reclaim your property with scrapbooking that is truly good for you, you are no longer dependent on people or circumstances for the goal you have of reclaiming the ravaged parts of your life. You are in charge of the outcome. The thrill of recovering the hard work I put into parts of my life (my real estate) is immeasurable. I believe it is part of God’s plan for me to get this stuff of mine back.  my favorite scripture and fully applies when reclaiming your life by god for you scrapbooking:   “All things work together for good for those who love God who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

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