Finding Peace Amidst The Chaos

Interestingly, people who manifest peace internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and troubled emotions like we all do. The difference is that they do not lend their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings can simply rise and fall like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of peacefulness within.   –Daily OM

So it’s been a few weeks since I’ve written, but I’m not gone.  Just taken a little holiday hiatus.  But things are good.  Actually, they’re still pretty messed up:  One kid has mono, both kids have been caught doing things they weren’t supposed to within the last few weeks, my wasband’s dating life is still impacting us all, some close friends and family members have been going through very dramatic life challenges and I’ve been traveling too much.  But besides that, it’s all good.

Actually, I really am good right now.  I got this quote above from one of my Daily Om postings.  Some of them are way out there but sometimes they are just perfect—as this one was.  I was reminded that peace is not something you wait for or you hope comes to you.  It is something you always have inside of you if you are just willing to stop the chaos in your head and find it. 

Believe me, with all the chaos going on in my life, I’ve done a lot of practicing of how to get involved in it, caught up in it and bothered by it.  But, guess what—that doesn’t change one single thing.  It is all there—it is just making me crazier.  By not lending my energy to it, I find that silver thread in the middle of all the gray threads (hard to find, but when you do find it you realize how much it glitters) and you hold onto that.  That silver thread is peace and happiness.  No one else gives it to me and I don’t find it at the end of a journey.  It is always there for me to access whenever I want it. 

We’ll all come out of this alright and we’ll go through this the way we’re supposed to go through it.  In the meantime, I’m just breathing and finding my peace.  The silver thread amidst the braid.  Ahhhh…..