Expressing Peace. Listing Peace. 80.

Listing peace is easy. Lists attract the human mind which mostly and most often operates in the linear. Making lists appeals to the desire to feel in control of what occurs in our lives.

I love the blog Marc and Angel Hack Life because virtually every post is a list. 2 Secret Tricks of Highly Product People; 18 Great Reminders When You’re Having a Bad Day; 27 Stressful Things You Tolerate Too Often; 12 Promises You Should Make to Yourself and Keep Forever…..

In many ways, these Expressing Peace posts are my list built from my lists. Certainly, these posts expand my list(s) every day.

I encourage you to make your own list(s) around your peace/Peace. Your list may be of what brings you peace, how Peace lets you feel, what reminds you of peace, ways you see peace and Peace connected. Your list is your list.

Believe me, listing peace is easy. Just let yourself write it without any editing. I’ll show you. I’m composing an original list of what sparks my consciousness of peace and Peace. Right now. Right here. I’m listing peace.

1. Praying
2. Telling Cindy I love her
3. Watching Whispurr sleep
4. Running
5. Swimming
6. Making coffee and the very ritual of making coffee
7. Walking Alex
8. Watching sunrise
9. Folding clothes warm from the dryer
10. Drinking the morning’s first glass of water
11. Everything about water
12. Shaving
13. Singing “Surely the Presence of the Lord Is in This Place”
14. Being barefoot
15. Meditating
16. Writing anything by hand, especially in my journal(s)
17. Peeling, slicing, dicing, chopping anything for dinner
18. Stretching
19. Praying with someone else
20. Looking at the sky, day or night
21. Seeing a doe and a fawn grazing
22. Hearing my self say, “Good morning, GOD!”
23. Feeding Callie and Yodi and Whispurr
24. Sitting on the porch
25. Coming home from work

I didn’t hurry. I wrote that list in less than 5 minutes. Speed isn’t the object and we’re not having a race. I enjoy that listing my consciousness of the peace I experience brings another 25 to mind, another 50, another….

I encourage you to list your peace, your Peace in whatever way you wish. And then consider sharing it with someone else, and invite them to share their list with you.

Supplier of All Peace,
the chance to list so many ways I find peace,
so many ways I am led to peace,
so many ways you deliver peace to me
are infinite reasons to thank you.
More than that, they are infinite ways
to know you
to know your Presence
to know our Oneness
to know that peace on earth flows from Peace that knows
no limits.
Peace is everywhere for Peace is every “where”
as it is everyone and everything.
Peace is and I can see it in a sunset and in three cats eating
and in All That Is.
I thank you, GOD.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.

Enjoy Peace. List Peace.

Expressing Peace. peace and Peace. 79.

I want to add some clarification to my meanings of peace and Peace.

I treated my self to an outdoor retreat today. No work. Not much thought. Lots of hiking. Lots of meditating. Lots of sitting and looking at beautiful scenery.

I experienced both peace and Peace. In huge amounts. During meditation #2 I remembered Jesus’s words: “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” (John 14:27)

Some might interpret that as saying that only Peace from Spirit matters, that peace experienced in the real world is distracting and should be avoided in favor of Peace. Joel Goldsmith, founder of The Infinite Way and whom I revere, says in Practicing the Presence: “We all know the kind of peace that the world can give, but that is not the kind of peace that we need.”

Ultimately, basically, in the True Way, that peace from the world is not the Peace that we need. The Peace that we already have is what we need (and since we have it, “need” is not the appropriate verb). If we have a real need it’s the need to realize we have–in fact, we are–Peace. It’s ours, present as our being, to recognize and enjoy.

I see greater than in-this-moment value to our human world peace. Whether you define that peace in prosperity, relationships, comfort, security, happiness, health and well-being, that peace should not be ignored. I believe that knowing the kind of peace “that the world can give” is knowing an expression of Peace. Enjoying peace as an expression of Peace generates reliance on Peace/Spirit/GOD. That reliance allows us to create our experience, our reality by our way of thinking.

Sitting on a cliff 50 feet above the lake, I knew the physical peace of a beautiful, mind-free and mindful day. That certainly keyed me in to loving that I AM Peace. I’ll take one of each, please.

Sweet Spirit Who Gives Us Peace
and peace,
they bring us multiple blessings.
Your Peace is eternal, infinite, and total.
Your Peace is Truth and All,
therefore without opposite.
Your Peace is the fountain from which
we can draw and create the peace we use
to mark our human lives full and good.
We are free to know
the peace we make
(and sometimes think we’ve found, not made, it)
is substance of your Peace.
We are glad to thank the Peace we are
for the peace we have.
And so we love you, GOD.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.

Enjoy Peace and peace. Express Peace and peace.

Expressing Peace. Daily Word (2). 78.

Today’s Daily Word says, “We have spiritual power and through our peaceful thoughts, words, and actions, we can create a peaceful world…….I think peace, speak peace, and act in ways that foster peace. I am a peace maker.” The daily word: World Peace.

By today — Day 78 — it must be obvious that I agree — even identify — with that statement. At the same time, I want to take expansion. Expansion, rather than exception.

I would have “world peace” mean more than we normally mean it, not only among nations, tribes, ethnic identities. The intention of today’s Daily Word is the conscious link between our thinking, speaking and acting to foster peace throughout the world.

The truth is that as we think peace, as we speak (and write) peace, and as we foster peace in our solitary acts and our actions for others, then we make peace in our lives also.  We make and know peace in our hearts, in our minds, in our physical being. That allows us to make peace at the kitchen table, among traffic on our highways, in the dairy section at the grocery store.

Perhaps that seems “one person at a time”peace. Yet, the expression of our peace beyond the human world connects with the Spirit that is the Universe, connects with the On that is All. The connecting words, the words that fit in that “……” in the Daily Word passage above are “Through prayer, I strengthen my practice of peace.”

No matter how (or how much) we pray, our peace, our kitchen table peace, reaches out as world peace.

Maker and Giver of Peace,
we would have peace throughout the world.
We consciously affirm as real the peace
we see with our hearts’ eyes
and bless with our hearts’ love.
We know and hold as our intention
universal peace, love fully present.
As much we thank you for the peace we know
that places joy at our front door
and laughter in our friends’ voices
and worthiness throughout the work we do.
The broad span of all that peace is
and does and gives fills our prayers
with our thanks for what is real in our daily lives
and conscious in our hearts’ vision.
And so it we thank you, GOD.
Amen. Amen.

Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.

Expressing Peace. Sneaky Peace. 77.

Sneaky peace sneaked up on me today. What a beautiful surprise.

It was a beautifully focused day because I was in the “flow”, as written about by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (and discussed in an earlier Expressing Peace).  Highly productive. Fast-moving. Almost totally head-down and creating.

Then, all of a sudden, I was finished. Work was over. The day’s assignment done. Suddenly, the energy I had ridden without noticing s l o w e d   d o w n. That, I noticed.

For a moment I didn’t know what to do or how to feel. I could recall the surge and charge of intently working and producing since early in the morning. And quickly I realized I could be “now” and appreciate the standstill, the calm. Sneaky peace. Now I could revel in it.

Like getting a peace two-fer.

Have you ever noticed peace sneaking up on you?

• Singing with love and gusto; feeling immense ease after the last note?
• Building something that expends your energy; floating on the pride with the last nail driven?
• Presenting a speech that calls on all your attention; smiling big inside to the applause?
• Moving in high gear on errands and chores and work; coasting at the last check-off on the list?

The next time your high energy engagement ends, let yourself recognize the beautiful peace that follows.

Loving One,
thank you for the energy
that lets me know the calm,
and thank you for the peace
that lets me seize the doing.
The balance of moving so fast
that the standstill is all the richer.
The yin yang of working with such fervor
that putting down the tools is bliss.
And all is Peace. Both halves make up the whole;
Peace is the Whole.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.

Enjoy Peace. Two times.

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