Expressing Peace. Open Doors. 44.
Open Door – Tom Hart
Open doors?
I’ve loved doors all my life. Their invitation. Their mystery. Their strength. That they give personality to their building.
Living offers lots of of choices with doors: opening, shutting, knocking, locking, regretting, welcoming.
How many doors have you gone through in your life? Real doors or figurative doors? How many doors have you closed in your life? Real or figurative?
Some doors are much more attractive than others. But every door makes me want to know what’s on the other side.
Doors and Peace? Spirit welcomes as does a door. By its very purpose a door is a way of passage. Spirit welcomes, welcomes me to realize by recognizing that am One with Spirit.
Some doors challenge me, even frighten me. I don’t like their looks. They make me fear the unknown that’s on their other side. And that reaction reminds me fear is not real. Know real Love and fear vanishes as it’s only the absence of Love. What’s beyond that door? What can I love and let go of my fear?
There are doors I’ve closed. And locked. And been relieved behind the barrier, alone. Until I knew I was not alone. Ever. And the barrier was my construction, and the door was only its symbol. And with that awareness I could throw the door open.
Knock, knock, GOD.
I’m joking for I know you never close the door.
If any obstacle appears between us
it is my creation, a door I erect
and close until I know the folly.
Knock, knock, GOD.
Let the door of my mind open
and release my ego
then maybe shut that door that ego
can’t return.
Let my heart’s door swing open wide
and welcome all that is without,
and bring it in to your embrace.
Let the doors to Spirit
be automatic sliders, locked open,
always allowing the endless flow
of Love and Joy and Peace.
And so it is.
Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Open the Door of Peace.
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Expressing Peace. Forgiveness Is Peace. 43.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness brings Peace. Peace in turn allows and encourages forgiveness.
Walking this afternoon, I realized that forgiveness
- gives calm
- removes the grudge we carried
- frees us from feeling guilty and from seeing guilt in others
- takes away our judgement
- moves us forward
- opens our hearts
- lets us hold hands, if only in our hearts
- shows us our Wholeness
- puts the past behind us
Or, best expressed: Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Forgiveness is more than changing your mind about what you saw as wrong. It is seeing from the heart that at the Truth there is no wrong or bad or dark or pain. It is knowing Peace. It is knowing the Christ in me that I may know the Christ in others: all others, every other.
Forgiveness lets me know that I AM Peace and that “I AM Peace” is true of everyone, is true for we are One.
MotherFather GOD,
You give to me the power to forgive:
first my self
for seeing with human eyes
for judging with human mind
for blaming with human words.
As I see my Self as your child
and my every brother and sister that same way,
I know there is nothing to judge.
Forgiveness removes my judgement of another.
Forgiveness lets me look beyond the human scene
and see the Truth of Perfect Creation.
Forgiveness lets me return to my connection
with your Peace.
Forgiveness lets me let go of seeing human life
as be-all and end-all.
Forgiveness lets me know your Peace is All.
With thanks, GOD, I remember these words
whenever I may judge another:
I let it go.
I let it be.
I let me love.
I thank you, GOD.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
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Expressing Peace. Peace Rocks. 42.
Peace Rocks
Peace rocks.
I’ve carried perhaps a dozen peace rocks with me over the past 20 years.
I hold the peace rock in my hand. It reminds me Peace Is.
I touch it in my pocket. It lets me feel the ease of Peace.
I think of it, remembering I have it. It tells me Peace is a rock and that we may perceive that rock as fragile.
Peace rocks.
We pave our pathways with rocks. We walk along our Peace, sure of our footing, from place to place.
We line our gardens with rocks. We enjoy the Peace of earth and stone, and of their complement.
We build our shelter with rocks. We surround ourselves with Peace.
Peace rocks.
A thousand years. A million years. A billion years. Peace is older than even the oldest rock.
Rocks survive. They wear and smooth and adapt. Peace is forever. When we discard our bodies and they rest in peace, our Being thrives in Peace, with Peace, as Peace.
Peaceful Presence,
that stone and Peace are of the same eternity comforts me.
The rock I touch and feel as smooth
reminds me I AM Peace.
The path I walk and feel as true
assures me I AM Peace.
The house in which I live and know as home
surrounds my Peace with Peace, One Peace.
Sweet Spirit, you bless me to know plain rocks,
so frequent in my every day,
as testimony and reminder of your Peace.
You give us ways to have the rocks
fulfill our needs and serve our purposes
that we may build from Peace.
The rock is strong and smooth
or sharp and jagged,
a pebble or a mountain,
in every instance it reflects Our Peace
and we are thankful.
And so it is.
Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
In: Affirmation, Beauty, Home, Oneness, Peace, Prayer, Praying · Tagged with: Faith, God, Peace, Prayer, praying
Expressing Peace. Smiles. 41.
Smiling Peace
Smiling creates peace. In every instance, a smile generates peace, shares peace, and receives peace.
When we smile, we experience what I call the Feel-Good Factor. A true, sincere smile creates a good feeling within. Just as a smile feels better on the face (because it uses fewer muscles) than a frown, the act of smiling fills our insides with feel-good. As a smile is an outward expression, it has a wonderful inward effect. Give it a try. Smile (don’t just grin) and notice the emotional feel-good inside.
Another smiling peace benefit is the Smile-Back Factor. Experimenting on the NYC subways for a month in 1995, I smiled at 25 strangers every day. Again, a true, sincere smile and not just a grin or lazy lip curl. I kept records: I sent out 575 smiles. I received 546 smiles in return, or 95%. Consider this: my smile made me feel good and gave the other person a reason to smile back which probably made them feel good. Feeling good is a primary characteristic of peace.
Finally, smiles produce the All-That-Matters Factor. I suggest that at the moment you smile, nothing is happening in your heart or in your mind except whatever is causing the smile plus the smile’s good feelings. And that is awesome peace. Even if it lasts only as long as the smile, all care, concern, stress, trouble and worry disappear. All that matters are the smile and whatever brings it on. Smiling peace? For sure!
Each factor produces peace. Each factor allows us to us to know the connection between our at-this-moment smiling peace and our for-all-time spiritual Peace.
Smiling Spirit,
thank you that it feels so good to smile.
I plan to remember.
Thank you that a smile returned makes me happy.
I plan to smile more often.
Thank you that the peaceful moment when I smile
reveals that what bothers me’s not real
and all that matters is the peace from smiling.
I plan to smile and enjoy that peace.
I plan to smile thanks to that peace.
I plan to smile thanks to you for all Peace.
And so it is.
Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peaces. Smile Peace.
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