Peace as Grace: What the Olympics Taught Me
Peace comes to us in two ways. Sometimes we build it, slowly, through the small choices we make each day: the pause before reacting, the honesty we choose even when it’s hard. And sometimes peace arrives as a grace: met, given, held for us at a depth beyond our own effort, and what we in the moment understand can be.
In Chapter Eight of Your Loving Power, I share two stories that taught me this side by side: one about a box of matches, and one about my daughter’s dream of being part of the Los Angeles Olympics during a time of real global fear.
In the first, peace asked me to pause and choose integrity. which happened to cause a wave between what we know on Earth as integrity and what we find to be True in the Eyes of God. In the second, peace met me: as a Presence, in answer to sincere prayer, and carried something I could not have carried alone.
Both are real. Both are necessary. And both point to the same living force underneath: Loving Power, one that holds personal peace and worldly peace as two expressions of truth, landing on two separate levels of consciousness.
Living Life is not always easy, but when we are sincere, we can find our way. Please let me know your viewpoints on living life in Peace. I look forward to hearing your experience, your thinking on Peace. Follow me on diane_and_the_elements on Instagram… It’s an easy way to connect and share thoughts
