“Peace of mind is a wonderful thing.
“It is seldom achieved but always strived for, the soul and the mind becoming in harmony as one, where both know their place and can finally accept what is possible and what is no longer required.
“By always striving for this and that and then the other, we put a great burden on ourselves and when circumstances appear to go against us, which they often do, then we become very frightened and distraught.
“We must strive to allow ‘God’ into our hearts and into our minds so that it becomes ‘His’ will as to how our lives transpire.
“By allowing the events of our lives to flow over us and not to fight them all the time, will see us, like the mighty Oak, bend in the storm and not break.
“Everyone has ups and downs in ones life – that is inevitable with regards to our learning experience.
“To know that we will survive these ups and downs is where faith and knowledge of ‘God’ comes in.
“Everyone must bear the pain of life and so can enjoy the many pleasures that also come to us.
“To know and appreciate all that we have, are in fact given on a daily basis and to share with others who have not enough.
“So we learn to build our inner strengths and appreciate life far more, always in the understanding that help comes in in mysterious ways and allows us to continue on our designated path again.
“When we are asked to give something up in our lives, or when something is taken away, it is because it has already served its purpose and is no longer required.
“It then allows for new events and possibilities to come in and so we can further grow.
“It is through hardships, that everyone must go through, that tests us to the limit.
“At times we all think, “Can I survive this? Will I break or like the mighty Oak bend but not break?”
“It is through these hardships we appreciate more of what life is about.
“We start to see life in a different way and when it turns, which it always does, so then we can appreciate how we have all come through it and survived to tell the tale.
“Faith is a funny thing. When all is going right for us we think nothing of it. It is only when times are hard, are we then tested.
“Our ‘God’ is then called upon to help and assist us through these countless ordeals and then to be discarded again once all becomes normal or at a pace we can manage.
“What is required of us on a daily basis is to become strong with ‘God’ – to learn to speak freely with ‘Him’ and to learn to meditate so that the right sort of information is always given and for us to learn to know in our hearts and minds, that what is actually given comes from the Higher Power and not from our puny intellect.
“This of course, like everything worthwhile achieving, takes practice and eventually you will come to understand and accept the wisdom that is imparted into your mind and soul.
“Too many of us rush through life taking no notice of each other, never mind having the time and the dedication to speak to ‘God’.
“We rush around like bulls in the china shop, busy, busy. “I must get this, that and the other done today.”
“We wreck our bodies and our minds putting everything at risk, especially our health and peace of mind.
“Few these days have that peace of mind.
“It comes to us when we give ourselves that valuable time to be quiet, when we can reflect on the beauty and richness of nature. To see the wonder of how our bodies work with all its complexities to allow us each day to function.
“This we often take for granted, the miracle of life, of sanity and to learn not to expose ourselves to too much hardship, but to go to our quiet place to reflect on all that we have, on all that has been given to us in one way or another and to be grateful and with that gratitude over time, so peace to our minds is restored.
“To know like the sparrow, who neither reaps nor it sows yet is always provided for and so it is with our lives.
“We are provided for in more ways than we realise and so we must come to appreciate all that ‘God’ gives us and so restore peace of mind to us at last.”
Jenny Ayers
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