"Let there be Peace on Earth, and Let it begin with Me..."
As I sit and sip tea on this Christmas morning...before the day begins, I was pondering how peaceful my life is.
Peace didn't come to me.
It wasn't a place I arrived at.
Someone isn't carrying my peace.
Peace is like happiness...and found inside of you.
Peace is place where you are at one with who you are, and reality.
Peace is to not fight against what is; but to be fully accepting.
I guess you could call it Grace.
On Christmas morning...I am not sitting 'hoping' for a Bright Christmas. I am filled with bright peace...warm love and joy.
In the past, Christmas was supposed to make me happy, fulfill my dreams and hopes and right the world more or less. It was a day of magic that would correct all the wrongs the year held. The pressure Christmases of past held...and my hole of anticipation waiting to be filled...were huge; and largely a failure. For no Christmas could do what I myself had to do.
Peace does begin with you....or end with you.
Each of us is responsible for the energy we bring to Christmas Day...and all the other days of the year.
We are responsible for how we share ourselves.
How we present ourselves and our feelings and emotions with others.
Who we are, and our presence, IS the present at Christmas.
We bring that which is inside of us.
I am at peace this Christmas...
Merry Christmas!
