Dear Friend in Peace,

Would you rather perceive an obstacle or step into an opportunity to be more peaceful? When we take our power and choose our thoughts intentionally and our words mindfully, everything changes and what may have seemed overwhelming can be understood as a blessing.

I was talking with my Pal Sal recently about things that at one point in my life, I called overwhelming, and later in my life, I chose to name as challenges. For a long time, calling life’s shifting sands “challenges” felt good and encouraging to me. However, as Sal and I spoke, I recognized the meaning and energy of the word challenge no longer resonated for me. Rather than describe my life in terms of challenges, I could speak, see, and feel everything as an opportunity for peace! In speaking those three words, every cell in my body shifted, and I recognized and was inspired by the possibilities for us and our world that could flow from mindful phrasing of “opportunity for peace.”

Right now, our nation, democracy, and civil rights are being dismantled for the profit of a few. As people of peace we speak up for liberty and justice for all. It is also ours to create an atmosphere of peace through our thoughts, words, and actions. This begins by treating everyone with respect, not just those with whom we agree about this or that.

By choosing Mindful Phrasing, we can also build clarity and power within ourselves. Rather than bemoan our fates, call names, or treat others unkindly, we can choose to name and see this time in our history as “Becoming our dream of liberty and justice for all.”

This is not a Pollyanna attempt to avoid reality, but a clear-eyed choice to take our Power to shift outcomes through our peaceful, loving, joyous intentions and vibrations. Rather than give up in the face of darkness, we shift into the peaceful power of mindful phrasing.

Peace of Mindful Phrasing

Challenge becomes an Opportunity
Worry evolves into Possibility
Fear translates as a Call for Love[1]
Anger becomes an Invitation for Compassion
Hostility dissolves into a Desire for Peace
and
This unsettling, cruel time in our nation becomes known as
“Becoming our dream of liberty and justice for all.”

Thank you for choosing peace in your thoughts, words, and actions.
Yours in peace and love always,
Donna

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