THE SSEEKING PEACE AND JOY DICTIONARY
For Better or worse this blog has been flowing through my fingers for just about four weeks shy of two years. Several ideas on how to celebrate this milestone have floated in one. Ear and out the other (that’s why I wear headphones al lot—something’s got to hold things between my ears long enough to process.
Well... since I use the. Blog as a way to think about events and their meanings it dawned on me that a series of meanings would be a good way to honor the two year run. And what do we often call a book full of meanings?
A DICTIONARY
So over the next 26 entries this blog will offer some wordsa and offer some meanings that might be considered in what will be called...
The “Probably Should be extremely” Abridged Seeking Peace and Joy Dictionary...
Now each letter will only have a few entries—my name isn’t Webster.
So let. Us begin what will be an interesting 26 entry extravaganza.
———— A ————-
A is for
Acceptance— Acceptance is often labeled as being a noun. Sometimes it’s also identified as a state of being like hot or cold... Well in a word.... NONSENSE! Acceptance is an action verb used as a noun which. Makes it a gerund.—-like swimming or running. . It is something we work hard at and what we need to accept changes constantly (including. Accepting change). In seeking peace and joy we engage in accepting change, in accepting new ideas, in accepting loss, in accepting growth and in accepting constantly shifting skill sets and relationships. Since we all spend so much time inn the act of acceptance seeking peace and joy means working on it ourselves and sharing our processes and experiences. With others.
Awareness-
This is a noun or a state of being. Oh and it’s a gift since when we become aware in the present we don’t have to. Carry around things from. Our past or speculate on multiple possible futures. No we don’t have to clutter up the air when we are fully aware because our senses and our spirit will be fully engaged in gathering wonderful data that we can make meaning from and create the stories we will share with others. Awareness is like striking. Water in the middle of the desert. Being aware means being open to real world possibilities including the signs we need to understand others and to connect with them along the journey. It allowed us to participate in purposes that transcend us individually.
Anxiety—
The universe likes to whip all kinds of twist is and turns into our walk of life and when we come across the challenges then we can experience anxiety. In seeking peace and joy it is sometimes possible and positive if we look. Not at this dictionary, but delve into the Peace and Joy thesaurus. What do we see listed under. “Anxiety?” Well “anticipation of change and growth” is one entry. Oh and recognizing opportunities for experimenting with new actions is another entry. So anxiety is anticipation and recognition and so maybe anxiety shines a light on the path of growth?
And finally for the A section—
astonishment —
Seeking peace and joy means leaving room to explore. And adopt a stance of childlike astonishment with regard to all the various natural and intellectual gems we might come across each day. We can pleasantly marvel at the complexity of our human bodies and the taste of chocolate, or a new song or dance. We can truly be thrilled and seeking out things. That astonishisn’t that difficult if we expect to gather input and construct or create alternative. Earnings for even the routine circumstances in many days. for example be astonished. That the human hand has 27 bones and yet most babies master relatively complicated movements way before they speak their first word. How cool is that?
Well... that’s enough for today. The dictionary will
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Back tomorrow .
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