My Peace is My Safety

Sometimes I know not to do something, but I go ahead.

Then I have to get myself out of the situation I could have avoided.

When I am at peace, I know when and whether to go ahead.

Then I avoid problems.

I know to listen for the deep peace which tells me what I need to do and where I need to be.

I know it absolutely.

I am listening more and more consistently, but still it is new territory for me.

When I am safe, other people feel it, too.

We coordinate in ways that are immeasurable and uncontrollable.

I coincidently meet people and just as coincidently do not meet other people.

Being obedient to past teachings does not work.

Those old pathways were induced by other people, other opinions.

My peace comes from following what is given to me.

It comes directly to me.

It is mine, mine to use, mine to share, mine to experience.

I am safe when I use what comes to me.

It comes to me through trusting myself to receive it.

That is a great source of peace.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Listening for My Priorities

I am learning how to not be in conflict with myself.

I am actually starting to listen for my own priorities.

I have had no idea what they were for years and years.

I had gotten into the habit of overriding them.

But now, the opportunity to observe them has arisen.

Boy, am I surprised!

I had no idea what they were.

I have been buried so deep in “responsibilities”, in societal expectations, in obedience and discipline, in “bloom where you are planted.”

Well, those are all right, so far as they go.

But they are not the way to live a life.

My priorities are there because of who I am.

They are the reasons I am here.

They are intended to be expressed.

So now that I have that straight, I think it is going to be all right.


 © 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com

Continuing My Work

 

My work is coming to me from within.

I am learning to listen for it, and to take action.

Most importantly, now I know that it is there.

I am learning how to “release the hidden splendors”. (Robert Browning)

I am learning to release them by searching for them.

I am gaining courage and belief in myself.

I am not only learning new skills in order to release them, but I am learning that this is my only real work.

I am investing totally in what is within.

It is now becoming a habit.

Being aligned with purpose, conviction, belief and skills is quite a powerful combination.

It didn’t come overnight.

It has come gradually as no other alternatives have been acceptable.

I have had to really search and learn to trust the inevitable.

When you let go of everything, and fill yourself up with powerful teachings, something strong is bound to emerge.

I found it necessary to even let go of good teachings from the past.

They did not get me as far as I needed to go.

I have been able to embrace many of them again, but in a completely new context.

This context is enabling me to serve much more widely.

I am finding a fresh, new, original me.

This self can reach out and share from the foundation that I have had to build from the ground up, actually from below the ground!

But now, I have something that is mine.

I have something that is so powerful and so completely a part of me that I feel resilient.

I can serve, I can share, I can bounce back!

I can meet challenges in a new way, one that moves me forward and does not reinforce the status quo.

I arrive at new points, not just acceptable old ones.

This is good, really good.

I have work that will continue.


© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com