Don’t miss the blessing…
The best part of my entire Christmas day was not opening presents or eating tons of snacks, but rather a few heart to heart conversations. Conversations about topics that mattered and that kept spinning through my mind long after the last word was said.
In one of the conversations I talked about when I think of how to describe myself I never think first of teacher, which is how I feed my family, but rather writer, which is how I feed my soul. After saying that I questioned my own dedication, even though I have published a book and had a magazine article published this year. I think this is due to the fact that I have this hard held belief that a writer should be writing every day.
Then as I sat down to blog I realized writing everyday has been exactly what I have been doing with my blog. Life needs dreams, and it needs a way to daily bring those dreams into reality. This is true of being a writer, or being a peace maker, and it seems to me the most important thing is intention. If our intention is to bring peace in the world it may look differently from what we might first think, and it is important to remember that so we don’t miss the blessing looking for the answer.
Peace may be silence and smiles instead of words, it may be buying a cup of coffee for a stanger instead of eating alone yourself, or it may be just thinking each day…what is something I can do in this moment, in this hour, on this day to make the world a happier, saner, more peaceful place?
