After work

Thoughts today are around all the ways we create peace for ourselves each day.  For one person, it may be to make sure her child goes to bed on time, leaving her with some part of the evening for herself.  For another, it may be to spend time formally meditating or praying.  Each day may be different, and add another possible way to center, empty and regain appreciation.  We can't make peace where there has been none in the past, we cannot create a guaranteed peaceful future.  We can only create peace now and here, where we are.  It is something that happens the moment we remember that who we are is much more than what we do for a living, how we treat the people around us, or what possessions we have.  It is what happens when we know who we are and that each of us has everything we need right now.