Loving Energy

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia Maria Child

I’ve been working on bringing more love into my interactions with others. Not that I’m totally there yet, but when I am in conflict with someone, I picture them in my head and fill my heart with love, and imagine that my love is reaching out and enveloping them. I don’t know if this has any impact on the person I’m picturing, but I do know that it helps keep me calm and rational. And if I can stay calm and rational, I know that it helps whatever situation I’m in.

I also use this technique when I hear of someone who is hurting. It’s my way of praying. I ask the universe to pass on my loving energy to the person in need, and picture myself radiating love for them.

Peace Begins at Home

I just got back from a week’s vacation in Montreal (actually in Brossard, just south of Montreal) where I visited my sister, Rebecca. We had a lot of fun times, particularly shopping, shopping, and more shopping. She took me to many of her favourite stores. She also introduced me to Irina of Salon Coiffmania who gave me a wonderfully relaxing manicure. If you’re ever in Brossard, I highly recommend her.

Rebecca and I also spent the week FLYing. FLY is an acronym for “Finally Loving Yourself” and it comes from the website www.flylady.com. On the surface, this appears to be a site about helping you with housework, but it goes so much deeper than that. If you’re wondering what this has to do with peace, read this excerpt from an email I received this morning. FlyLady (Marla Cilley) talks a lot about how to have peace at home. Her mailing list has over 300,000 members and thousands more sign up each day. I’ve barely begun her baby steps, and I feel so much better already. The people I share my home with have noticed the difference, too!

Dear Friends,

I got up in the middle of the night with the song Let There Be Peace on Earth ringing in my head. I wrote it down on my notepad that I keep in my bathroom. I got up this morning to see what I had written and I can't get those words out of my head.

Peace does begin at home! We have been tossing out our clutter for the last few days! Less clutter is the beginning to finding your peace at home. You deserve to live in a home that hugs you! Start today by clearing out a little area of your home! Take the babysteps we have been talking about. Your clutter is representive of the clutter that is going on in your head. Clear out some physical clutter and you will be releasing some of that mind clutter along with it.

Let there be peace on Earth.

FlyLady

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Celtic Blessing

I found a book of peace meditations, and this blessing was at the end. It spoke to me, so I wanted to share it with you all. Peace.

Celtic Blessing

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you…

Peace between nations,
Peace between neighbours,
Peace between lovers,
In love of the God of life.

Peace between religions,
Peace between world views,
Peace between differences,
In love of the God of life.

Peace between races,
Peace between man and Earth,
Peace between man and beasts,
In love of the God of life.

Peace between person and person,
Peace between wife and husband,
Peace between parent and child,
In love of the God of life.

The peace of Heaven above all peace.
Bless O Heaven our hearts
Let our hearts incessantly bless,
Bless O Heaven our faces,
Let our faces bless one and all,
Bless O Heaven our eyes,
Let our eyes bless everything they see…

From the Carmina Gadelica, collected and edited by Alexander Carmichael
as printed in The Book of Peace: Meditations From Around the World by Claire Nahmad