Reread the opening quote.
Regardless of what is going on in your life, having inner peace is a decision derived from the answers to three questions when faced with a challenging situation.
- Where is your focus?
- Why is your focus there?
- What are you going to do about whatever is holding your focus captive?
Sitting in a state of anxiety is a choice.
So is sitting in a state of peace.
Hint…The first step in answering question three is turning the challenge over to God in prayer.
1 Peter 5:7, “Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
Journal your thoughts:
What am I grateful for today?
In what way(s) will I bring light to the world today?
What will I deny myself so I may draw closer to God and gain more peace in my life today?
Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
(Serenity Prayer – Reinhold Niebuhr)
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
