tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29301840763148939002024-03-13T19:12:22.246-07:00Power of PauseMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793921660488944949noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930184076314893900.post-11928709278394066962011-08-01T08:03:00.000-07:002011-08-01T08:03:43.945-07:00The Power of the PauseI love the power of the pause. In the midst of the vagaries of life, I often forget to pause. A whirring inner engine, some very authoritative part of me revs up... mind chatter escalating as the tide of the stressors of the day wash in and over me. I seem to go faster. My mind, my body racing and numbing all at the same time. Its inherently unconscious nature allows ugly feelings to brew within. Apparently I invite them to find a voice. They get louder and shriller and much like a malignancy they seem to consume my being.<br />
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Then, in Grace....<br />
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From deep Within, a small voice seems to whisper, a bubble of the Great Spirit deep in the core of my being shifts... its luminous Light pierces the darkness of the mayhem...and I re member. Pause. I become wiling to lift my head to the Light above, feeling its warmth splaying around and through me and I pray...relief floods through me..the contractions in my body begin to release. A softening of my scalp, my jaw, my neck, my shoulders, my upper arms, my chest , my belly, my thighs, my calves, my feet, my toes...the peace of surrender to what is in this moment flows through me. I notice that my body has been holding in, holding out, and holding on in resistance to what is.<br />
Pause. Pray. Peace. THe power of the pause. The opening to prayer. The magical invitation to relaxing into a delicious surrender, into deep acceptance of that which I cannot change or control..Pause. Pray. Peace. The Grace of what I have come to know as the 3 P's. There are 3 more P's and they are for my heart only. Today I pray to weave the experience of the power of the pause throughout the moments and hours to come. Pause. Pray. Peace.<br />
Love All...mary Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793921660488944949noreply@blogger.com0