Peace Often Demands Disruption
Hello,
During the holidays, the word peace is often used. And I find that peace is often complex, disruptive, and hard won.
This holiday week, I keep thinking about how much peace often involves disruption.
And this disruptive path to finding peace can happen in so many areas...
Maybe your peace right now requires a boundary someone doesn't like.
To get peace in a relationship you may have to disrupt the old patterns, and put in new boundaries.
Peace may require you to undo a decision you once thought was right, but now you know it is no longer right.
Peace may include changing who you are close to, or who you will - or will no longer - take advice from.
Peace after an injury to a relationship often requires a messy disruptive healing process.
Peace may include changing how you take care of yourself in ways that are disruptive to what people expect of you.
And peace just for some, but not for all, is no peace at all.
The Christmas story to me celebrates the disruption the love of God brings to our hurting world.
Loving yourself and others, following what you believe, working for peace, becoming more yourself, is often messy not mild.
If you are in the middle of the disruption - working to find peace - keep going. It is not a sign you are on the wrong path. Peace often demands disruption.
I am really honored each time I get to be a part of a Darling Round Table - an article in which several writers are asked the same question, as if we were all at the table together.
Here are two Darling Round Tables about:
Lessons Learned in Quarantine
and
The Value of Having Dialogue Amongst Opposing Views
I hope this new Guided Meditation is timely:
Episode 58: A Short Meditation for The Weary of Waiting.
And Still Becoming Kids has episodes all about the holidays being different this year for kids:
Episode 10: What if the Holidays are Different This Year?
And I hear this is an adult favorite on Still Becoming Kids:
Episode 6: God is Not Afraid Even When You Are
Finally, I love this quote, especially for those of us in the messy part of seeking peace:
"Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from."
- C. Joybell C.