Today I am at peace.  Completely and totally at peace.

 

At first I was unclear how to identify this sensation with my common experience.  I thought ‘mellow’?  What about ‘dull’ or ‘melancholy’?  Then like a gentle breeze from within came recognition: “PEACE”.

 

Within this sensation of peace, breathing feels extraneous.  Heart beats seem thunderous.  Moving and thinking are effortless, but seem pointless.  Still I breathe, and my heart beats, and I sit here thinking and typing these words, and it feels good, and I’m at peace with it all.

 

I’m grateful that today is Friday.  It feels soothing and affirming to gaze back upon the movements of my week and acknowledge how blessed I am.

 

 

~> I’m so grateful for my loving wife!  She grows and evolves before my amazed eyes, becoming day by day more and more the woman I’ve searched for all my life.

 

~> I’m grateful that last Saturday Peaches and I got to spend an evening with so many lovely people that we consider intended family, we got to eat and laugh and play and celebrated beautiful Emily’s birthday!

 

~> I’m grateful for so many opportunities this week to work with and help the nuns, since my office mate is away on vacation and I’m keeping both of our desks clear.  I love working for the sisters and relish every opportunity to be of service to them!

 

~> I’m grateful for my involvement this week with Eckhart Tolle’s book, “The Power of Now“.  His is a wondrous message of acceptance and awakening.  This book has played a powerful role in my current experience of peace.

 

~> I’m grateful for some new friends that Peaches and I have begun to bond with… Hi Rebecca and Annie! 

 

~> I’m grateful that Debbie becomes more and more like a sister to Peaches and me every day.

 

~> I’m grateful for my involvement with Abraham-Hicks’ Emotional Guidance Scale; I love the power of this tool to help me to stay aware and cognizant of my current emotional state and my power to change a negative feeling to a positive feeling with the ease of a simple decision.  (Today I’m comfortable at 3, happiness, boarding on 2, passion.)

 

~> I’m grateful to live in the Pacific Northwest!

 

~> I’m grateful for cool sunny evenings every day this week so that Peaches and I have been able to get our 5 mile daily walks in.

 

~> I’m grateful for the big, spacious, beautiful, warm house with 2 kitchens that Peaches and I call home.

 

~> I’m grateful that very exciting business opportunities are spontaneously popping into Peaches head, and that she’s begun the process of turning our second kitchen into a certified bakery space.

 

~> I’m grateful that our marriage is so filled with love, playfulness, friends, prosperity, abundance, adventure, growth and acceptance, indeed, our marriage is like the Universe itself, expanding without limits.

 

~> I’m grateful that words of love and gratitude spill effortlessly from me onto the page (or monitor as the case may be) on a daily basis; with so much gratitude and love in my life experience, how could there ever be space or time for anything less fulfilling?

 

~> I’m super grateful that Peaches and I have completely ritualized our pattern of setting aside a minimum of 20 to 30 minutes EVERY SINGLE DAY to cuddle and make out before we get out of bed in the morning; it’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we started doing this… that’s a lot of smooching!  (Thank you to Barbara Carrellas and her fabulous book “Urban Tantra” for putting forth the suggestion.)

 

~> I’m so grateful for this delightful state of peace within.  May it continue to grow and spread from person to person, from town to town, from country to country. 

 

XO,

K

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Soul Mates! ~ Photo by Emily.