Most Important

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 I’m not sure that Peace is more important than love but in a way they go hand-in-hand.  I wasn’t going to write today, but I got to thinking about my Peaceful feeling today.  I feel Peaceful as I sit and smoke my pipe, but life isn’t always peaceful.  But feeling Peaceful is the first step to loving ourselves.  And if it’s there it goes outward from us.

I began a post this morning and felt it wasn’t very good and thought I’m might not post today.  I’ve had my morning coffee and am on my third bowl of pipe tobacco for the day, but I have this most peaceful feeling about life and thought I’d share this with you.  Life comes at us and we don’t always feel either peaceful or loving.  But when we take time to meditate on Peace we are filled with it.

I wish I could explain it better, but we need to shut out the world and take time for ourselves.  That’s the best way I can describe it.  It is a Spiritual gift we seek.  If we want it then it’s there.  But it comes to us in quiet moments when we are most relaxed.  It’s why I smoke a pipe because these days I have time to do this.  

I enjoy listening to quiet music and just sit in silence of my mind.  It’s sometimes hard to do, but we can do it in moments or hours.  I am at my best when I’m quiet or just listening.  My mind searches for Peaceful thoughts away from the din of the phone or social media.  God speaks in the quiet of our minds.  Too often we’re thinking of our next thing to do.  But all we have is the present.

And our best use of time in the present is to focus on an easy Peaceful feeling to quote a song from the 60’s.  And along with Peace is love.  They go together.  We start with ourselves and put our focus there.  This post might be later today, but I wanted to say that Peace begins with ourselves and moves outward from there.  But we need time to develop it and to give it time to grow.  Thank you your time today and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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