Expressing Peace. Time. 5.
Time Peace, not just piece of time.
Today is Monday. I have fun letting people know that “when you reach 70, you’ll have lived 10 years of Monday!”
They usually respond with a puzzled look. Then the math gears in their mind turn and an “aha” crosses their face.
I’m now between the 9 and 10 years for every day of the week. Amazing in some ways to have lived more than 3400 weeks. Amazing in others that the weeks have flown by so fast. Amazing that I can joyfully reclaim memories from so many of them.
My in-depth remembering long ago events, snapshot reflections of people encountered and drifting recollections of places I’ve been let me know the Peace of then, the Peace of now.
[Take a moment to see what memories stream across your mind. Take your time. Recall. Reflect. Remember.]
I so much love the return trips my mind takes me on: people, places, events. So many ring so clear and bring back surges of love and joy and energy and peace. Even of melancholy and sadness and pain. All the memories weave into the tapestry that is my life.
The good of which there is so much. The “bad” that taught me lessons, cleared my path, opened my eyes. All that interlaces so beautifully that if I am the only person who knows the joy and fulfillment my life has been, is, and will be — I am enough. And I am grateful.
Provider of Timeless Peace,
the joy of looking back upon what’s been
the peace of knowing the high spot now
the fulfillment of seeing the tapestry of all I’ve been
and am
and will yet be
come together for me with such clarity.
I am grateful for the moments and the days,
for the weeks and for the months.
The people who have played with me,
the stories we have written, shared,
have lived and have rewritten.
Sweet Peace, I thank you for the freedom
to remember and enjoy what was.
I thank you for the clarity that lets me know
what is.
I thank you for the faith that I anticipate
as what is yet to be.
And for this day, GOD, especial thanks!
And so it is.
Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
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