In Monday’s post
this week I wrote, “Recognize how your creativity is effortlessly rooted in you
already.”
And then it
occurred to me yesterday, “Peace is effortlessly rooted in you, too.”
Yes, it’s
already there.
Within us.
It is not
conditional.
It requires us
to get vulnerable.
Sometimes
this means being afraid, but not drowning in that fear.
Sometimes
this means being anguished, but allowing the tears to flow until they
naturally ebb (like the tide).
Sometimes
this means feeling angry, but doing nothing…until the small glimpse
of
a start at an action comes to us, unbidden, and we suddenly know how to take
that
one, next, small step in non-aggression.
Peace is not always
tidy. It does not have to entail agreement with all things and beings.
Peace might ask
of us acceptance of things that we’d
prefer were not, though: that cold, sharp rock that lodges in our solar plexus.
(Nor is acceptance synonymous with agreement, satisfaction, defenselessness, powerlessness,
on-the-fence-ness, or a mandate to do nothing in the face of injustice.)
The journey of
peace, toward the growing of peace, asks us to look deeply within. And to do so
with a creative, open heart. It asks us to not pin a feeling of serenity on
what is outside of us but, rather, what is waiting for us there already.
What does peace
feel like within you…the brand of peace that naturally resides without external circumstances to grow or diminish it?
What texture
does it have?
Being a creator
of peace is not unlike the creative process: making something of beauty, by
hand, out of the upwelling of your imagination.
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