Expressing Peace. Years of Peace. 65.
Years of Peace
No matter how long you’ve lived, your life has known years of peace. No matter how many upsets, upheavals, uproars you’ve lived through, you have lived in years of peace.
So, here is an an exercise. Not at all strenuous. Essentially without any rules, scarcely any guidelines; just a few suggestions.
The purpose? To reflect on instances of peace and Peace you have experienced during your life, your entire life. And enjoy the memory here, now.
Set aside some time, perhaps a half-hour. Relax. Separate yourself from any distractions. Think back. Way back.
The objective? To recollect an instance of peace, an awareness of Peace, in each year you’ve been alive.
Suggestions:
- You may write them down or just remember them.
- You may do these with someone and share them aloud.
- You may do it all at once or divide it into parts.
- You may do it any way you wish.
- You may fudge your memory. If you can’t remember that very first year (0 to 1), imagine what was a likely peaceful experience. Indeed, you have this freedom for any year right up to the present.
- If you wish, you may use a guide such as a calendar, a diary, photographs.
- If you cannot remember any peace moment from a specific year, there’s no penalty going on to another year. You can always come back later. Or not.
- By the way, you don’t have to do this chronologically. If you’d rather hop, skip, and jump around in your peaceful reflections, that’s fine.
- If year-by-year is strenuous, try decade-by-decade. If you do, try for 10 instances per decade.
- Please keep in mind: accurate memory is not what you’re after. Experiencing peace/Peace now is the goal.
Happy memories. Happy peace.
(It is no coincidence that this is Expressing Peace #65 and I am 65.)
Timeless Spirit,
your eternal Presence bedrocks our faith
in your Love and Joy and Peace.
Time we created to measure change.
You give us the joy to find peace in time,
among the minutes, months and years
that we are in this human form.
Thank you that we live the moments, the months and the years.
Thank you that we too reflect on specific times among them
when you gave us peace and we knew Peace,
when we were still, enjoying stillness,
knowing in our hearts your Presence.
Thank you, GOD, for our moments, months, and years
of Peace.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
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