Regaining My Balance

Despite being thrown off balance for most of my life, I am regaining the poise and prosperity that were originally intended for me.

It was necessary to gain control over factors which were beyond my control at the time.

Gaining resources, awareness, techniques, and wisdom allows my progress to continue.

This new feeling of balance is a curious, but welcome, one.

With it, I can take orderly, though tentative, steps as I establish connections of my own for the first time.

Practicing my priorities, carrying out my desires, is like taking my first steps learning to walk.

It is that new, and that precious.

I am allowing myself to direct my own course and to regain what was lost to me.

I am establishing the balance in my life by becoming what I was meant to be.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Creating a Culture of Peace

Surrounding myself with peace is the most important step I have ever taken.

I establish my peace every morning before I do anything else.

I think my way through meditations.

I make sure I am  creating a relaxing start to my day.

As soon as I can, I begin my spiritual study.

I make sure that I share the results of that study through inspirational posts before I read any of the day’s news.

This creates a culture of peace for myself.

I refer back to it and add more inspiration to share throughout the day.

I want to make sure that what I respond to is not the fear generated by the media, but the peace I am creating for myself.

Every time we share inspiration with others by reading it or thinking about it, we expand the influence of peace in our communities.

Since peace is the natural tendency of mankind, to live in beauty and to share abundance, it is a powerful antidote to the dissatisfaction and fear and suspicion we are confronted with, all lies, through the media.

What we love is getting along with everyone.

What we love is a calm and delightful afternoon among friends.

Creating a culture of peace lets us expand our friendship to include more diverse peoples and to create more calm and delightful experiences for all members of our communities.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Calm and Certain Steps

Sometimes, I get such fun and interesting ideas, I want to do them all at once.

I know that if I jump out and try to start them all, I will get exhausted and get nowhere.

Now, when I want to do something, I listen for the deep peace.

When I release all the distractions and feel the deep peace within me, I am ready.

I will feel the quiet, the calm, and the peace.

Then I know what to do.

It simply comes to me.

I do not hurry.

I take my steps calmly, and gently with a deep sense of peace all the way.

When I lose that sense momentarily, I stop and take the time to regain it.

Then I move securely once again.

I am grateful for the opportunity to learn how this works and to be able to move serenely toward my goals.

Even though they are the same goals I have in my excitement, I do not collect and then have to release a lot of the emotional debris.

I can move with poise as I listen for the joy of the ideas that come to me, and then I can take the steps to accomplish them serenely and with joy.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Inward Recognition, Outward Peace

As you recognize your inner identity, you can begin to connect to your purpose.

As the sense of your purpose infuses you, you begin to feel a new kind of confidence and peace.

You are no longer competing in the world for the worldly values in a typical way.

Whatever you are doing becomes infused with this deep sense of who you are.

At some point, it can lead to a different occupation, but mainly you keep your peace with you  whatever you are doing.

As your individual sense of purpose refines itself, you may be guided into a new direction.

You know that you can go there with a sense of peace.

Once you are used to listening to your inner identity, it is easy to recognize the feeling of being guided.

Everything you do from your inner recognition gives you a sense of peace, whether you continue where you are or make changes to your situation.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

The Peace of Making New Things

It is so incredibly satisfying to make things.

I love learning how to make many different things.

It is a source of delight and confidence to gain and execute new knowledge.

Making things develops so much more than just buying or receiving them.

You engage your mind and hands to create.

You experience textures and shapes and rhythms.

You associate with actively engaged people.

You attract interesting and creative givers.

Your create inspiring surroundings together.

Your conversation is inventive and informative.

You share knowledge.

You support one another in your new skills.

You create an uplifting environment.

Making things generously expands knowledge and facility in a pleasant atmosphere.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Peace in Gardening

I am so happy to be following one of my longest-held goals, growing a garden.

It is peace-giving to move in the direction of your heart.

I am trying out ideas I have read about and finding out what works.

I am going about it in ways which make sense to me, one-step-at-a-time.

I am connecting threads which have been broken for most of my life.

Even though it is what I have dreamed of doing, it is terrifying to be making decisions toward what I choose.

Following the dictates of others  was a required path.

Now it is no more.

So I am building up the practice to move in my new direction.

As I begin soil improvements and start growing a few plants, I feel the peace that I have always desired.

I am so glad to see new flowers blooming and tomatoes and squash beginning to produce.

It is the beginning of something I have always wanted and it is happening.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Living in Time

Even though our day passes hour-by-hour, we can get a sense of living outside of time.

We have our thoughts, our routines, and then we have our moments of inspiration.

As we cultivate the deep peace which connects us with inspiration, we begin to live in time with that rhythm.

Our days flow more smoothly.

We are less worried.

We maintain our poise.

Taking a moment to breathe deeply, we pause.

We can feel the inner peace just below the surface of our thoughts.

Our breath gives us a moment to connect with it and to bring it to the surface.

Then we can continue with our errand or look up the next resource for the project we are working on.

The time we are living in becomes ours to mold in a peaceful and inspirational way.

© 2017 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com