Peace

You know the peaceful moments, when life is calm and everything seems to be going along seamlessly?  And anything that intrudes on that calm can easily be pushed away?  Me too!

Having suffered a lot from anxiety and depression, I can say that my peaceful moments have been relatively few and far between.  Unfortunately, these two things can often wreak havoc in our bodies, as well as our minds.  I’m sure you’ve heard of the flight, fight or freeze reaction?  Sometimes the reaction is SO quick we don’t get a moment’s breath between the mind hearing and the body stopping completely still.

I will admit, there are times when I have actually FELT my whole being stop still.  Then I have had to take a breath (even though instinctively you want to HOLD your breath) remind myself of what I was doing or about to START doing. 

But then there are these blessings of PEACEFUL days.  Days to look back on as a relief from the harder ones.  Or even those MOMENTS of peace DURING the difficult times.  Many of my memories of my six children in heaven are beautiful moments or things people said or did that make me smile to think of them now.

And it’s SO EASY to miss the breaks during the hard times.  I have discovered that i need to be watching out for them so I don’t miss out on them.  Sometimes I have discovered Kevin has a totally different outlook to mine on events because he sees the good things when I missed them.

Peace, though, is when life is at its best.  I have discovered it doesn’t have to be completely quiet.  Because peace can be the feeling of contentment inside and sometimes I am so peaceful I start singing songs that come into my head.  Or I listen to music or watch something I enjoy (hello Sound of Music)again.  

TREASURE

Peace can be a very short time, seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks.  Keeping an eye out for the times to hold to when life is more difficult is a really great idea.