You don't know you've lost Peace until you can't find it. Sometimes you don't know you've lost Peace because you've never had it.
Peace is not an absence of challenge or trial. It is not a promise or guarantee of the avoidance of hardship. Rather it is the stillness which draws from a deep well spring the knowledge that all that really matters...is well.
Peace is not about being popular or well-liked. In fact maintaining it will sometimes require doing things which are deemed disagreeable and opposed. However, Peace cannot be divorced from Truth and the Integrity to live a life which is free of duplicity.
Peace does not guarantee that you will never have aught with your fellow man. However, it will provide the pre-requisite humility and wisdom to understand how to surrender in love knowing that the personal battles we fight are ultimately temporary in nature. Peace knows that real victory lies in understanding the profound and empowering universal truth of the power of Love. That is eternal.
Peace means you can look your enemy in the eye without malice in your heart because you know that the lessons he was sent to teach could never have been learned without the pain of the gift of his strike. Peace allows you to laugh again...It's not about forgetting about the wound, but being confident that the healing of the scar has made you stronger than you were before.
Peace is being able to leave it alone...lay it down. It is the strength to walk away and be free from the temptation to look back. Peace is a good night's sleep & a refreshing wake-up in the morning.
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*This post was first written in July 0f 2008. When I read it today, I was encouraged. I hope that it will refresh and encourage you again in some way. Peace & Blessings to you...
Lola Audu, is the Designated Broker & Owner of Audu Real Estate. Our company specializes in helping people buy and sell homes in the greater Grand Rapids, West Michigan area. We've had the privilege of helping hundreds of clients succeed in their goals of purchasing and selling property including demonstrated success in the negotiation of Short Sale Transactions. You can contact us via e-mail @ info@auduhomes.com or by phone at 616-791-0511.
Great message I need to live with a bit more Peace in my life. I am afraid I might need someone to remind me once in a while thanks.
Lola - what a wonderful message to read after the last few days of utter craziness, with more to come. And the photo is perfect - something relaxing, to enjoy and ponder, but not make you think too much. I AM encouraged. The reminder is well needed.
Jeff
I find a glimpse of peace when I do my yoga practice. It is difficult to reach both on a personal basis and in a global sense as well... as evidenced by all of the turmoil and war in the world.
Lola -- really nce post. The cadence of your words has created a sense of peace as well as the message. I feally like the various ways you have defined or described peace. Truly believe peace spreads from individual to individual -- in time perhaps the larger world. Today a bit of peace is the fragrance of clean, clear air I enjoy after the storm that swept through my neighborhood.
Lola - This is the place I needed to be this morning. There has been very little "peace" in my life and I have forgotten about trying to find any in my life until I read the words and entered your picture.
I actually was able to create a ZEN moment , time to find some inner peace and balance now.
Thank You
Lola what a wonderful piece. (no pun intended) Just looking at the picture brings a feeling of peace, contentment. Insightful and thought provoking. Great way to start my day....early for me 5:34.
simply put........lovely!
Very nice. I really love that paragraph two - says it all. Peace.
Thank you all so much for stopping by here today. Blessings & Peace to you throughout this day and weekend. :)
Lola- I thank you for re-printing this. It was truly a much needed and much appreciated post that was so timely for me and what is called 'my life'.
I did not realize you put this blog in AR...I am featuring it in C&RE !!!
I originally read this in FB.....
AWESOME sis!!
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Lola, well said. There's nothing better than the feeling of peace it runs from the top of our minds to the tips of our toes - peace is to be cherished. Having faith that all will be okay is a great way to have peace! Lovely post.
Thanks again for this post. I am thankful for the peace that God has placed in my life even when I cannot see my way out of certain situations. I know that God will keep me in perfect peace as long as I keep my mind stayed on Him. God bless you my sister.