"Paradise" by Larry Morris
Gold
trees
in
my
window
Sunday
morning
Albuquerque
November
This Sunday is a good time to stop for a moment and recognize the beauty of November. Hopefully, wherever you are, you can find that beauty and let it bring you peace. Let today have a space for peace before we all gear up for the social pressure of this November. That pressure includes the beginning of the Holiday Season with Thanksgiving gatherings, often travel, and all the concerns around Covid and health in general. We have the ongoing pressure of inflation and the various events that underlie financial worries. And in the forefront, Tuesday is election day with an outcome that--despite polls, ads, social media and speeches-- remains an unknown, in an atmosphere that includes deliberate attempts to further polarize and divide America.
Let your inner peace, expand to a collective outer peace, and let that expansion in turn, deepen your personal peace. From the tradition of New Thought with it's emphasis on our individual spiritual consciousness as the bedrock of outer peace, we have what seems like an over simplistic idea: Peace begins with me. Yet, the collective is but the sum total of the peace of individuals. Collective peace begins with individual realization of the intricate interweaving of all creation, in an affirmation of the essential Goodness and Peace of the Whole. We name that "the Spiritual", or "God". Emmett Fox wrote: "The secret of happiness and harmony is Peace of Mind--and there is no other. You find Peace of Mind by getting right with God."
How do you "get right" with God? The answer again is an individual one. It comes in moving beyond anything within your consciousness, your awareness, your feeling nature, that has separated you, or built a barrier between your experience of your life right now and the Peace of God. As St. Paul wrote (Romans 8: 38-39), "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God...."
Where there is love, there is Peace. (Myanmar proverb)
A willingness to see beyond your mental rehearsals, a renewed faith and trust, a new receptivity to positive participation, a return to prayer and meditation, forgiveness, surrender, giving way, letting go--all of these are possible path's to Peace of Mind. Follow the 'nagging feeling' of your heart, leading you, and thereby all of us, to Peace. (Susan Nettleton)
Follow the links below for more poems by Larry Morris on Peace of Mind.
https://hillsidesource.com/release