Expressing Peace. Work. 56.
Peace of Work
Work. As much as we resist it, complain about it, feel oppressed by it, work really is (can be) a source of peace.
That we have work to do, gratifies. It gives us opportunity to earn an income or tend to family or create a product. Work gives us security.
That we can do the work we have, pleases. It makes us a contributor. We may contribute to the operations of a company, the wellness of a patient, the management of our home, or the sale of a product. Work lets us contribute.
That the work we do calls on our skills and knowledge, motivates. We get to exert our physical and mental energies. We may sometimes have to raise the bar and exert still more. Work satisfies our self-worth.
Recall the pleasure from a specific task that’s part of your work. Perhaps washing the dishes or greeting the customer or hammering the nail or answering the student’s question or sending the e-mail. If you allowed yourself a moment’s reflection of “I did it.” following the task, you likely felt a personal peace.
If you didn’t (or don’t) allow yourself the moment’s reflection, you miss many peace opportunities.
Peace Provider,
thank you that we have work to do.
Thank you that our skills and talents
find good use in the tasks and assignments we complete.
Thank you that we can be proud
of what we do, how well we do it,
and that it matters.
However it matters.
Thank you that our efforts please us,
our success excites us,
and our desire to be and do better
motivates us.
Thank you for the days – perhaps the every day –
when we are glad to head to work;
when we are glad the day fulfills us
by what we offer, make or share;
when we are glad to put away our tools
and head for home.
And so it is. And so we thank you, GOD.
Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
In: Energy, Happiness, Healing, Home, Peace, Prayer, Praying, Work · Tagged with: Divine Spirit, Peace, praying
Expressing Peace. 2 Lists. 55.
2 Lists
The 2 lists below are meant to answer partially a question asked yesterday: “Why is Peace capitalized and peace is not?”
The pre-list answer: the capitalized Peace means Spirit, GOD, Presence, Good. The uncapitalized peace is what we feel and experience in our daily lives.
And neither of those definitions is terribly clear. So, 2 lists.
Peace is
- what we are, what each one of us is, what all of us are;
- the blessing of good and love that are real and
- the blessing that their opposites, bad and fear, are not real (though we may think they are!);
- the true heaven: not a place but the presence of Spirit (of Peace) all around us for us to realize;
- the Spirit that expressed us, created us of Itself.
- —
- —
- —
peace is
- what makes us easy and comfortable in our every day lives;
- the comfort of mind without worry, without stress;
- the freedom from time constraints (if only for a moment!);
- the feeling of being in the perfect situation at the perfect time;
- the confidence that what happens is good, whether we immediately know why or not.
- —
- —
- —
Those empty spaces in the 2 lists are for your additions. Peace and peace are known by each one individually. They feel different for each of us. We each see our own images of peace. Sounds that speak Peace and peace to me may not be the same as yours. Please make the moments to identify what is for you Peace. And peace.
Sweet Peace,
the dual blessings of Peace and peace
are not too much to handle.
You give us the strength to know them both
and to know how well they coordinate
with one another.
The Peace you are is the Peace we are.
As your children we are express creations
of you, of your Peace.
The peace we find is the peace we live.
As individual expressions, free to be,
the peace we make is ours.
Our beautiful opportunity
is to know that Peace is cause
allowing us to enjoy peace
and give thanks for both.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy peace. Express peace.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
In: Peace, Peacefulness, Prayer · Tagged with: Peace, praying, spiritual simplicity
Expressing Peace. Mantra, Affirmation, Prayer. 54.
Mantra. Affirmation. Prayer.
Mantra. Affirmation. Prayer.
Easy to get them mixed up. No reason to. Really, no reason to differentiate among them. Each serves the same purpose: as a way to connect more closely with Spirit.
Some say the heart of a mantra is the rhythm, the vibration it creates that opens our Self to Spirit.
Some say the heart of an affirmation is its statement of truth about ourself that enhances our well-being, our sense of Self.
Some say the heart of prayer is our most creative communication with (or communication to) God.
I say each is a gateway to Peace: achieving harmonious vibration with Spirit or repeating what we believe Spirit believes or opening our Self in any way we choose to let us know the Presence of Spirit.
This afternoon on the 3rd lap of my swim, I began to chant I love you, GOD. And you love me. I did that to the halfway point. Right arm stroke: I love you, GOD. Left arm stroke: And you love me.
And then I switched, arms and words. Right arm: You love me, GOD. Left arm: And I love you.
Must have been a mantra for there was a definite rhythm. Must have been an affirmation for it amplified my well-being. Must have been a prayer for it opened me to GOD, surrounding me as water.
At first I thought today I found the peace, rather than Peace finding me. Then I saw it’s just like mantra-affirmation-prayer. Does it matter?
Loving Spirit,
our throats, our bodies, and our hearts
know your Peace
and express my peace.
They are not separate.
They affirm the eternal Good of which we’re made.
They sing the complete Joy with which we’re filled.
They swim in the total Peace surrounding and upholding all of us.
Every word we speak and song we sing and step we take,
every smile we share and breath we take and love we bring
affirms our good,
chants our living,
prays our peace.
And so it is. Amen.Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
In: Affirmation, God, Mantra, Peace, Prayer · Tagged with: Affirmations, Divine Spirit, Joy, Love, Peace, Prayer
Expressing Peace. What Matters. 53.
What Matters?
Peace.
What matters? As I walked, the orange-disk sun moved toward the western horizon and the 3/4 moon climbed from behind the eastern. At once I was so conscious of the size, the vastness, the distance, and the life-significance of what is outside of me. I enjoyed the beautiful cloudless sky, the almost translucence of the moon, the softening brightness of the sun. I enjoyed the peace of feeling infinitesimal relative to what I saw.
“The significance of my unimportance” pronounced loudly in my head.
You and I are by no means unimportant for we are Part of the Whole. You and I are significant as we are of GOD and graced with the Christ Spirit that is ours to live. You and I have meaning for our creation is GOD’s expression of Peace.
Our real significance comes from knowing we are Peace. That lets us know that the happiness and excitement and pleasure and success our human existence brings are relatively unimportant. Important to our everyday lives, sure. Important to our human wants and needs, of course. But the simultaneous sun and moon made all that seem unimportant relative to the Spirit that is our true Self.
And it made my whole view of tomorrow and its demands, of today and its delights, of yesterday and all its doings remarkably peaceful. Remarkably Peace-filled.
Supreme Power and Presence,
I love the peace of knowing
that as I am the most important person in my life
I am no more important than anyone.
I love the peace of feeling
less than small compared to the world around me
and as large as your Spirit which I AM.
I love the peace from finding
I am One and I am One of everyone
are not contradictions
and both are true.
I love the peace that looking
at the moon and sun
and listening to our heart
lets me enjoy: enormous
and tiny.
And so it is.
And so I love you, GOD.
Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
RSS - Posts