There is so much going on in the world today but through it all we have to be willing to allow peace to reign in our minds and our spirits. Sometimes it can be so hard because we can allow ourselves to get so overwhelmed …even with our day to day functions and encounters. It is imperative to take time out of our busy and possibly hectic days to seek out that inner peace and allow it to fill us up. I am a witness that if we do not take that time, we will make ourselves void to those things that require peace and strength…like our health and mental stability.
I recall a time when I was constantly on the run…working full time Monday thru Friday, I was the secretary for this small church and stayed on the go, I also was the Pastor’s aide and was constantly running errands for him, of course I had my children to take care of and was doing it by myself since I had left my ex-husband and moved to a state where I had no family or close friends at all. It was a hard struggle and I worried about everything everyday…how to feed the children, how to make the rent, how to pay the bills, how to get transportation, how my oldest son was doing, how to get new shoes and clothes for the kids, did I remember to do this and that and that… etc. One morning I woke up at about 6 am. It was a work day for me and a school day for the children. It was my intention to hop off the couch just as I did every morning to get the day started only this morning my body would not move. I had just enough strength to call my daughter, who at the time was 9 years old, from upstairs to come and help mommy off the couch. After about 10 minutes of trying to get off the couch, it was obvious to us both that on that day I would not be moving. I instructed her to call the daycare so I could ask if they could pick her and her brother up and also bring them home that evening. Thankfully the owner understood. She had seen me rushing many times before to walk the children to the daycare every morning, run to make my bus to get to work, and walk them home every evening in almost 100 degree heat because I had no car at the time. So she picked them up, I gave my daughter the house key to lock me in, and I called in to work. I prayed to God that whatever was going on, don’t let it be permanent and I fell asleep. I did not wake back up until 6pm that evening when my children woke me up.
That experience taught me a valuable lesson. To slow down and allow peace to come in. I had to learn to take some personal time to allow God to talk to me and work in me. I learned over the years after that just how important peace was and made it a personal goal to let some things and some people go in my life. I had to have peace and I could not allow anyone to take it from me. I learned how to shut my mind and emotions down and just relish in the peace God gave me.
In this hectic society and our busy lives…we have to learn to ALLOW peace!!
In Peace!
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