Expressing Peace. Change. 93.
Broken Glass Mosaic
from Moonfish Artworks
I have some thoughts about change and peace. Let’s compare yours and mine.
Change alters our familiar “way of….”.
We adopt or resist such change.
Change, then, has us use the energy our “way of…” allowed us to conserve.
That “way of…” is our comfort zone. Our comfort zone is a place of peace. We know it, we like it, we enjoy that it doesn’t demand much. Peace. Peaceful.
So, change disrupts our peace. And how we respond to that disruption, determines how well, how fully, how quickly, our peace returns.
Change puts a dent in our routines. That dent can be a gift, depending on our ability to adapt to the change. Facing change with a resilient, open mindset brings the peace back faster and often even more thoroughly.
Take, for example, post-traumatic growth. As you might guess, it’s the opposite to post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-traumatic growth is essentially living one’s life more meaningfully in the light of the trauma one has experienced. That meaningfulness is enriched with peace.
Consider the two ways of reacting to a broken vase, a vase cherished for its beauty or its history or its place in one’s heart. It is knocked from its shelf and shatters into a hundred pieces. One reaction: lasting anguish and the feeling that the vase can never be replaced. The post-traumatic growth reaction is immediately envisioning the beautiful mosaic to be constructed from the pieces. Such resilience means bouncing back, not to the original state but with acceptance to the changed state. Resilience is a type of peace.
Change may interrupt our peace. Creating our reality’s mosaic with what’s changed allows us to bring back even more peace.
Creative Spirit,
the eternity for which
you created us is changeless.
It is All Good and Love and Joy and Peace.
We mark this life with changes that are our creations.
As though to test our peace, we encounter changes
we may not want, expect or understand.
We get to choose “accept” or “resist”
Either way our peaceful comfort zone
knows upheaval in that moment.
You gave us power to change,
to move through change
and let change move through our lives.
You show us peace with which to welcome change
and to adapt to change and meet peace on the other side.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Change. Express Peace.
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