Peace

I made the decision to stop flirting with peace and sought to be in true relationship with it.

This journey has been filled with revelations.

What I’ve learned while pursuing my relationship with peace is that it cannot be found in another person.

Peace cannot dwell in chaos.

It cannot be found anywhere near toxicity.

PEACE isn’t present just because love is.

PEACE doesn’t care about loyalty and commitment. 

PEACE doesn’t live where there is pain.

In fact, PEACE may not make infrequent appearances even where there is concentrated and vigorous healing. 

Because that kind of intensive healing isn’t swift and neat. It doesn’t look like a field of daisies and cannot be tied with a bow.  

On the contrary, It is messy. 

It is painful. 

It is ongoing.

And usually evokes traumatic memories in the process. 

PEACE must be found within. 

It is found from work you do from the inside out. 

Once you are in true relationship with peace, It is then up to you to treat it like the valuable and sacred thing that it is.

A decision must be made to respect it and boundaries must be set to protect it. Not only with each individual in your life but also any potential new arrivals.

I am still cultivating this relationship with peace.

I am now clear on the decisions and boundaries needed to strengthen and sustain this relationship. 

I will accept some others into my close space, provided they bring additional Peace to my life in the form of their own relationship with Peace,  actions, words, energy, aura and presence.

All others will have to continue to or begin to exist separately from me.

What no one will be allowed to do is disrupt my Peace. 

There will be no exceptions. 

Simply put, I have decided:

“If it costs me my peace it’s too expensive.” 

-PEACE