Expressing Peace. peace and Peace. 79.
Lake Georgetown:
peace and Peace
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.
In: Christ Spirit, God, Peace, Prayer, Praying · Tagged with: Christ, Faith, Peace, praying
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