Chicken's Peace!

Do you know how to calm a chicken when it attacks you? Pick it up, tuck it under your arm and walk around with it for a while.

I think it's the same with people!

While we cannot literally walk around with someone tucked under our arm, we can still hold them close. A Peace practice if you feel attacked this week is to imagine tucking your attacker under your left arm, close to your heart and taking them with you a while.

Cluck, cluck, cluck.

Love,

Darlene

Silence is Peace

Richard Foster, in his book The Freedom of Simplicity, points out that silence is freeing, freeing us from the need to control. Much of our speech is merely self justification, "a frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten other out.......we devour people with out words."

How might you be silent today, letting go of your need to convince or judge? Notice what you are speaking for; notice the motivation underneath the urgency to talk. Then resist the urge to speak from any of these needs.

Allow silence and Peace.

Love,

Darlene

Pause, glide, breathe................................

The speaker knows to pause to hold the listener.
The dancer loves to glide.
The singer breathes to float the song.
The pianist rests.
The actor masters the whisper and the glance.
The visual artist embraces empty space.

We create so much when we do so little.

Create Peace today; pause, glide, breathe, rest, whisper and embrace the space.

Love,

Darlene

Peace in the Depths

To steal from Paul Tillich, Peace "is the depth in things"; present when we slow down, stop, rest in the moment, breathe and let go. We need to be willing to steal these moments from our noisy lives in order to find that deepest of places where Peace resides!

Imagine the entire world slowing down, resting, breathing and letting go, then steal a bit of that for yourself today.Be a thief in service of Peace! Paul would love it. So would the world.

Love,

Darlene

Peace in the midst of chaos

It may seem challenging to practice Peace when Haiti is falling apart and suffering. It is tempting to worry now.

And you have a choice in the matter! You can choose to be at Peace AND in action doing and giving what you can, trusting it is enough.

If you absolutely, positively must do one more thing, SEND LOVE AND PEACEFUL THOUGHTS to those who need them. That includes you!

Love,

Darlene

Peace is only found in yes!

This morning's rain scattered diamonds in the bare trees. Water drops suspend on tiny branches, thousands glittering in the day's new light! The rain, the trees, the light all say "yes" to life, to me, to you.

"Peace is only found in yes". A. de Mello SJ

Love,

Darlene

Peace Connections

Did you know............that for every 6 neurons in your brain there are 32,768 connection configurations possible? It boggles the mind. This variability in the way the brain can form connections is what makes it the most powerful computer ever.

Now then, for every group of 6 people on the planet there are 32,768 connection configurations. It seems to me that these many and varied ways to connect are the basis for something amazing and powerful. So, the next time you hear yourself or someone else say that Peace is not possible, remember this number. Humans and the GINORMOUS number of ways we can connect makes anything possible. Especially Peace!

Love,

Darlene