Are you in peace or turmoil?

Teacher Terry said:
Mostly at peace.
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Honest answer, IMO. Life is not continual bliss or complete chaos. Emotions come and go. Being at peace is a good thing, but the important task is knowing how to get back to it quickly after a stressful situation. This I'm getting better at, pretty good, actually, but I have not yet reached perfection. It's all quite relative, but there is a lot of satisfaction in my life.
 

At this stage of my life I am at peace, I feel that I am mostly an observer and there is very little I can do about turmoil of others or the world for that matter, so I do the best I can for myself and that means taking care of my health and well being. I love and help my family when I can but when all is said and done they'll have to find their own peace.
 
I am at peace. I have a lovely life, amazing husband, wonderful family.

Are there stressors? Yes, of course. Do I sometimes get anxious or worried? Feel overwhelmed or stretched too thin? Sure. I get angry occasionally, or frustrated, or annoyed as well. I am a flawed and imperfect human, I have a busy life with daily interactions with a variety of folks and sometimes I am vexed by them. I’m not perfect by a long stretch.

But I’ve learned to roll with all that, to take life as it comes, to focus on the positives and minimize the negatives, and to work at seeing those negatives in a different light and look at them as opportunities to do better, be more patient, accept life on life’s terms.

Life has taught me a whole bunch of hard lessons, and basic to all of them is that the only person I can control is myself and my reactions and responses to whatever comes my way, and so I try really hard to make my responses positive. Do I always succeed? No….did I mention that I’m flawed and imperfect? 😉🤣

I figure life’s as good as I make it, and so I try and make it as good as I possibly can!
 

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You tell me. In the last 3 years, I've had to get new windows, new roof, front & back doors etc.. So far this year, I had to buy a new car, washing machine, computer, phone, dentures, glasses, AC, & furnace. The dish washer doesn't work, and yesterday the plumber, who came to stop a faucet leak, says my well pump and bladder tank won't be around much longer.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
You tell me. In the last 3 years, I've had to get new windows, new roof, front & back doors etc.. So far this year, I had to buy a new car, washing machine, computer, phone, dentures, glasses, AC, & furnace. The dish washer doesn't work, and yesterday the plumber, who came to stop a faucet leak, says my well pump and bladder tank won't be around much longer.
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Reminds me of the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
You tell me. In the last 3 years, I've had to get new windows, new roof, front & back doors etc.. So far this year, I had to buy a new car, washing machine, computer, phone, dentures, glasses, AC, & furnace. The dish washer doesn't work, and yesterday the plumber, who came to stop a faucet leak, says my well pump and bladder tank won't be around much longer.
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My last couple of years have been similar. Hang in there. I keep telling myself at least I was able to take care of all these things. Others are not so fortunate. But it is tough, I know, and can get me down when I let it.
 
Peace....I have learned when I am not I need to look for something to take me back there. It can be music, meditation, reading uplifting books, watching u-tube that is upbeat. I just know I can not allow myself to be tempted into self-destructive thoughts...I look at the thoughts, recognize they are there, and then do not follow them down a rabbit hole but just release them.
 
Peaceful contentment, like a river flowing to the sea.
I'm surrounded by Holy Angels and creative energy.
quiet,serene, nice. Feel love all around me.
 

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