I am truly grateful that you have chosen to spend this moment together.
Our poetry reading for today is entitled,
Abide.
The chaos of today demands the peace in me.
Been feeling consumed with carrying the solutions to every person's problem.
Two things are clear and one is for certain.
I am not the solution.
I don't have the strength to carry it.
And Abba Father takes care of both.
Oh what peace we often forfeit.
Oh what needless pain we bear.
Peace evades where stillness is not present.
Been struggling.
So this morning I decided to stop fighting it and I laid it all down in prayer.
Then I realized exactly how free I am.
Freedom is my choice.
I have lived bound for so long.
I forgot that I chose this.
Forgot that you've given me the key.
So grateful for your ever present reminder of how to live.
Not in my self-righteousness and self-centered standards.
But in your compassion and love and truth.
So grateful to be present with you Abba Father.
In this moment in time.
Teach me how to abide with you in every moment that you gift to me.
The things that we discuss in today's poetry reading include freedom,
Peace,
And chaos.
As we mull over what we just heard.
As always I have questions.
So as we ask these questions.
I'd like you to take time for introspection.
Through journaling.
Through responding in a voice chat.
I'd love to hear what you have to say.
Or through silent reflection.
Our first question is what or who makes you feel unsettled?
With that we're going to inhale together.
And exhale.
Our second question is what are you feeling consumed by?
And with that we inhale again.
And exhale.
Next.
Are you carrying the burdens of others?
And have they become too heavy to bear?
And with that we inhale together.
And exhale.
These questions are for you.
Sometimes as we've discussed before we move through life so fast that this knee jerk reaction or this response that we give don't even know why.
So this is a moment to ask those questions of ourselves.
Now in this moment we are going to breathe in some eternal truths and exhale.
The first is I am free.
Next I choose freedom.
Next I am peace.
Then I am compassion.
Lastly I am love.
That's powerful.
It is so important that we not only take time to ask difficult questions of ourselves but we also take time to affirm ourselves because if no one else chooses to the choice is ours.
As we conclude our time together I would love to leave you with a quote that resonates most with me at this time.
Take care of the minutes for the hours take care of themselves and that is a gentle encouragement to do all you can while you have the gift of time.
Sometimes all you can do is be alive in this moment and that's okay and that's success and that's productivity and that's amazing and I want to thank you just simply for existing because Abba Father inserted you in the year you were born because the world needed your energy and we would be such so worst off if you had never been born.
So I'm grateful to you for your presence and as always I look forward to seeing you at the next bend in the road.
Thank you.
