peace, nikon d50 digitalI have often heard that our thoughts are our prayers. I don't know about you but I can get a little stressed about that. I have quite the peanut gallery rattling around up there. On top of little nuggets of fun they have thrown my way (you'll never do that, who are you kidding? why would anyone care what you think?), they also like to take pot shots at other people (what an idiot, why would they do that? what is up with that shirt?).I'm not proud of the chatter in my brain but I also don't think I'm the only one with a snarky little gremlin running color commentary on a walk through the grocery store. So, knowing my thoughts are prayers (in others words, what we think has energy and can manifest in life-also known as 'thoughts become things') can be discouraging. How much crap am I sending my way?But then I was listening to an old talk from my minister online and at one point he said, our lives are our prayers.Something in that caused my shoulders to drop and prompted a big sigh of relief. I can get so caught up in the voices in my head, especially when they are negative and heavy, that I sometimes forget that I am still moving through this space despite internal prompts to just go back to bed and pull the covers over myself. It's not just my thoughts that I'm putting energy into. In fact, I'm often putting energy into all the other facets of life, despite negative thoughts.That realization helped me detach a little more from the thoughts in my head. I have long since realized that many of those thoughts aren't even my own-they are someone else's voice on a loop in my brain. Still, even knowing that rationally doesn't always make it easier when the internal stuff is especially painful or vulnerable. Yesterday's gift was to realize that many times, my thoughts are much less a part of my whole life than I realized. I look back and see that despite (or because of) everything, I continue to grow, mature, reach out, express, create. I am kind more often than I am not. I am forgiving, more often than I'm not. I am creative, more often than I'm not. I am positive more often than I am not.And that, in my opinion, is a pretty beautiful prayer to create during this go 'round on earth.I know so many beautiful prayers are being manifested by each of you. I would encourage anyone reading this to look back and look at now and look around and acknowledge the beauty or fun or joy or peace you are manifesting, just by being you.in and of and as joy~
