Pebbles of Peace Pathway- “Beauty reveals itself through the action of many tiny steps.”
(C)2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
I have not drawn the pebbles because the meditation and the quote from it are on my computer, which is still in the shop. I will add the rest of the drawing when I get it back.
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 3.21 –
Feeling the Urge
I have been prompted more and more to follow the urge to be peaceful.
I am really glad to discover this new tendency in me, since I had tended to be more depressed and despairing and angry in the past.
By following the urge to be peaceful, I give people more room.
I allow for the fact that they may be having a bad day, received bad news, are frustrated in their lives in some way.
They may not yet have the tools to deal with these negative situations in more productive ways.
It has taken quite a long period of commitment for me to learn the new tools which are making my life more productive.
The new tools which I am learning include giving myself time to think about the situation.
I also include the fact that it takes me longer to figure things out with my new tools, simply because I have not had as much practice with them.
I move more quickly to solutions because of my new approach.
I spend much less time in negativity and confusion.
I have discovered my purpose in life, acquired new skills with which to fulfill it, and I love doing it.
So it is well worth finding a way to peace.
I am grateful every time I can be true to that urge.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles of Peace Pathway 3.20 – On the right track
I feel as though I am on the right track for myself.
I am fulfilling a childhood dream to follow my own interests.
I feel so calm, like I am no longer being torn.
It was always so hard to follow the career which had been chosen for me.
I worked hard and was successful, but I never felt relaxed about it or thought it was my given direction.
The peace I am feeling is deep.
It is so simple.
I am grateful to have overcome the deep obstacles about being myself.
It is so much simpler to be doing this.
I love me.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 3.19 –
Finding Peace Amongst Chaos
I carry my peace with me.
Wherever I go, in every situation, I am an element of peace.
I am able to find my way to whatever I need.
I am led to people who can help me.
I can create good situations for myself.
I am led to serve in ways that support my desires.
I define who I am by my peace.
My individuality gives me the deepest peace.
It places me where I can be of service.
In the midst of things rushing around me, I can find my peaceful way.
I write my own life through peace.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles Of Peace Pathways – 3.18 – Grateful for the Peace
Grateful for the Peace
I am listening to birdsong, observing hummingbird wars around the feeders, feeling insects flit past my face, and looking at the layers of clouds above the lines of trees.
Everything is fitting together.
There is room for all the leaves on all the trees.
Despite the hummingbird wars, they are coming to realize that there are many feeders and sometimes they can even share.
The clouds pass at different heights.
One birdsong does not interrupt another.
Everything fits together peacefully.
There is so much variety in the same space, but not everything utilizes the same resources.
Sitting in my space, I am drawing on resources which have no other place than in my mind.
All the inspiration that I have received from others has impelled me to look for my own.
It has taken nothing from anyone else.
It is just there for me to express in an individual way.
Everything is like that.
No one can use up all the numbers.
No one can use up all the words.
No one can restrict anyone else’s use of their individual resources.
And these are what manifest around us in what we need.
When we concentrate on our own individual unlimited resources, we are not drawn into the ridiculous feeling that something we need is being kept from us.
We have the peace of everything fitting in, everything coming together in the way that most benefits each one of us.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 3.17 –
Soaking Up the Peace is So Exciting
I sit on our covered deck in the country and look across the meadow.
The meadow is full of insect life, butterflies and birds.
Beyond that are trees, and trees, and layers of trees.
And layers of leaves, greens and yellows.
Birdsong and insect sounds greatly throb in the air.
I am soaking up the peace.
An occasional breeze floats across all of us.
The clouds move slowly.
The joy of this peace, the dimension of this peace is so very exciting.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 3.16 –
Pressing of Events
As I notice the events taking place in the world, I have my opinion and my evaluation.
I react accordingly.
But I notice that if I put it all in the context of a much bigger social evolution, things seem quite different.
It takes a lot of discomfort to change the status quo.
It takes a lot of bad practice to expose the weaknesses in a social or governmental structure.
It takes a tremendous amount of effort to redirect the thought of all humanity to consider other courses of action.
All those things are happening now.
With our wider communication, comes wider awareness.
With our wider awareness comes wider compassion.
With our wider compassion comes a desire to effect change.
This is happening spontaneously in all parts of the world.
Discomfort, awareness, communication, compassion, action.
We are approaching a tipping point.
So many things are converging.
As a small child, I was taught that one particle of truth outweighs an entire football field of error.
All the truth of liberty, equality, fraternity, is converging in every country, every belief system, every culture.
The truth of it.
And so, let us see how these grains of truth establish a much, much better practice for all of us.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 3.15 –
Live Peaceably With Yourself
It is so peaceful knowing I will always take care of myself.
I used to do things I thought I had to in order to take care of others first.
I prayed for strength and humility and to “bloom where I was planted”.
Now that I am in tune with who I am and the ability to honor my own identity, everything fits better.
Because I am nurturing my own soul, I am able to nurture others better.
Because I am expressing my true gifts, I am able to live much better.
Instead of doing things the way others believe they should be done, I am doing them from a much higher sense with a deeper commitment and getting much better results.
Those ideas and intuitions that come to us are meant to take form.
We are meant to translate them into substance and magnificence.
What is coming to you from inside is your true identity and purpose.
Honor that and live peaceably with yourself.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Pebbles of Peace Pathways 3.14 –
Purpose and Peace
Fulfilling my own purpose is peaceful.
It is satisfying and there is always forward motion.
Not a rush, not a drag, but a nice pace.
Since I listen deeply for ideas, I always have an abundance of them.
They never run out.
It is quite a consistent supply.
I love being in harmony with my purpose.
It is wonderful being in pleasant and inspiring surroundings.
I am so glad that this is where I live now.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
Pebbles of Peace Pathway 3.13 –
A Positive and Beneficial Effect
Why does writing these ideas down have such a positive and beneficial effect for me?
As I am searching for answers, I release my thought to find them.
Since I want to live better, my thought “within” always comes back with something good that I will accept.
My goal is to have a more enlightened way to approach my life, so that is what I receive back.
As I read inspired writers, it gives me a greater sense of my worth.
As I explore a different view of my worth, I am finding it.
Each culture has definitions of worth.
I am finding that my worth is in what deeply satisfies me.
From my readings, I find that is the case with others of many different cultures.
That is worth knowing.
How we define ourselves and how we define our satisfaction is how we define our worth.
Since I have found other writers to help me assess myself and redefine my sense of worth, I imagine that I am also contributing in this way.
© 2024 Kathryn Hardage
http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com
Inspired Practices 