The Seeking Peace and Joy Dictionary — — P — —
P is for
Pain...noun
WTF? Seeking peace and joy is about experiencing things and bringing meaning to those experiences. If one lives long enough (over a few seconds) the chances of encountering pain in many forms is pretty substantial and therefore it seems reazsonable to seek something from pain. Pain can be a warning. Pain can be a sign that what you are about to do or just did is a “hold my beer” moment and it mighty be a good time to start looking for lessons in the consequences. Pain can provide an excellent. Opportunity to practice deep breathing and meditation where you can actually isolate the pain as a bodily function rather than cranking it up into an emotional nightmare. How exactly one does that every time escapes me, however, I have.had it work enough that the experiment continues. Pain is a common ground from which. You can heal and the healing experience is a great one to share with others. Pain. Often helps us learn patience and gratitude for the times when we are. More or less pain free. I’m not suggesting hitting yourself with a hammer because it will feel so good when you stop, and yet I’m saying pain often cuts through the pretense of what might happen or what did happen and reminds you that HEY! I’m pain and I’m here and now and so are you. If you can experience pain that way then you can experience curiousity that way, love that way, calm that way, excitement that way, boredom that way and the list goes on and on..... And as James Taylor reminds us that. It can help you go to Carolina in your mind. Don’t pray for pain, yet know that it can help us all understand the depth of our human experience.
Peace...Noun
Something you seek (see entries A through Z
Pentecostal
Pentecostal...adjective
Setting aside the religious doctrines for a moment... let’s look at the meaning...This word describes being caught up or immersed in the spirit of something. If we are in the moment, in the flow of an experience physically or spiritually we are truly going “pentecostal! The other part of Pentecostal is sharing your story and experience—no you don’t have to speak in tongues—that’s why we have Google translate. It is important however to share and see how your experiential envelope wraps around others and helps move them toward peace and. Or joy. Seeking peace and joy is having the courage to a feel the. Body hit flow or the spirit moving. You and letting it rip..... It should be noted that if you see tongues of fire you left a candle too close to the curtains so get the hell out and call 911
Pinball
Pinball...noun
This is a game where a ball. Made of iron bounces around in a “table full of rewards and traps... gee sort of like. Life. Sometimes you will see the ball come to a flipper and you can redirect the ball into a more positive. Place and sometimes you’ll be looking at that good-looking person in the bar and ooops—down the drain.. or so I’ve heard. Seeking peace and.joy is sort of like pinball all sometimes. You will have. Opportunities to change the impact. Of aan experience. Based upon the variety of lessons and meanings you can assign to it. Other times it will be headed. Only in one direction and you’ll need to accept the score as it stands until. You either. Put another. Ball in play or. Until you decide you have enough for one more game... In seeking peace and joy the important thing is not to tilt because then you close all other options. You can’t always control the game of life or pinball, and yet that doesn’t mean it won’t be interesting or fun and “who” knows you may become a “pinball wizard.”
Puzzles
Puzzles ...noun
In seeking peace and. Joy it is sometimes a reasonable. Path to view most of your journey in terms of puzzles to be treated with. Curiousity and experiments that. Can look like trial and error with each error being a learning task. If you look at challenges as times you are not currently at peace or. Feeling or giving joy then you see puzzles you aren’ t asking yourself if you can move toward peace and joy you are asking. Yourself. How . Maybe you are asking yourself. Who can move there with me and figuring out what tools you may need, but you are not asking yourself if you are worthy of peace and joy or what you have to do to be worthy. Remember however that even though you might see. The big picture the puzzle may never be quite complete because your brother of sister took one piece so they could. Put the last peace in or when you spilled your Kool-Aid one piece got swept off the table and is right over there under the stack of recycling . The point is this... look at things as puzzles because it will help sharpen your curiosity, keep you focused on the immediate surroundings and the fact that you are one piece in the puzzle of a community ands it can’t be complete without your contribution. Understand that you may. Have to move a puzzle piece in several direction to see how it. Fits and you may have to walk around the puzzle several times to see some of the solutions. Well and having said this there are no more pieces to this entry it’s time to. “Q” up the next entry
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