This will have to be a path for me. I have never been able to live in the moment. always filled with regrets and worried about the future or making "plans". I am trying to change this though and the messages on this board have helped.
- d, connecticut   28 Apr 2008

I commit to bringing peace to myself and the situation, especially when my teens trigger my emotions and when they are screeching and provoking one another.
- C. Be, Lyons, CO   23 Apr 2008

in the moment that's where I am right now breathing loving sleepy loved
-   12 Apr 2008

i have been ill the last few weeks but having the peace of god in my heart is helping me to recover. he is always there for us & i have to trust in him , god bless with love kim
- kim, nashville tn usa   1 Apr 2008

I am very much at peace within myself upon receiving Jesus in the Holy Eucharist at Mass each week. To me, I believe that it is a moment when Heaven is experienced. I know that I must go out and try to live God's Spirit but it is at that moment of the reception of the Holy Eucharist that I feel peace. In Merton's Secular Journal he relates how "at the Consecration the Priest was at the center of the universe." and so am I and so are we when I receive the Holy Eucharist.
- W.P.C., Jamesville, N.Y.   19 Mar 2008

I am a long way through my life and facing some very difficult challenges. I am trying to turn my stumbling blocks into stepping stones. I need to regain my sense of who I am after years of struggle and of merely coping and putting one foot in front of another, head down through the storm. I am learning that peace and love can conquer fear and hate. I need to use the strength of love and the calm of peace to enable me to look with courage within my heart and so to find the starting point for the day's journey. I mustn't expect too much of myself and nor allow the dissarray of others to destroy the inner strength I get from knowing God and through Him myself. I have spent too many years worrying about the external life and not enough about the internal reality. I am not struggling for food, water, daily existence as so many others in the world today so there is no excuse. Dear God, help us all to trust in your wisedom, love and strength. I lay all my burdens on you dear Lord Amen
- mhan, England   17 Mar 2008

To stay in the present, to look with new love each day on the face oof my children to know that i am held in love and light that is all that is important to me right now i lay aside my concerns with status and reputation the desire to be the best to outshine the competition and learn to dance with the moon tide and weep with joy and love at the fragility of the earth "tread softly for you tread upon my dreams"
-   8 Mar 2008

To LP in New York: You are held.
- CN, Chicago, IL   26 Feb 2008

Since losing my firstborn baby shortly after his birth on January 12, I have found it very difficult to locate and sustain my sense of inner peace. It is as if my entire world is shattered, and my sense of joy and security is fragile and fleeting. Yet, in the midst of this, I know I am learning some profound lessons that will ultimately help me emerge as a stronger, more peaceful person. If you are reading this, please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I am also holding you in mine. Today, I ask God to take my hand and lead me toward . . . wherever I need to go.
- LP, New York   24 Feb 2008

Our new Government has finally said sorry to our indiginous first nation peoples and we are all hoping that the some of the hurt will be cleansed from this ancient land.On the subject of monetary compansation surely a rich nation like Australia could find the funds to pay compensation to all members and families of the stolen Generation.I wish that this first step to reconciliation wont be the last and our Aboriginal brothers and sisters will shine and learn to forgive us for all that was done to them in the last two hundred years.
- David Rixon, Melbourne Australia   24 Feb 2008

Everything is happing now, live and feel the moment to its full extend. The peace you feel will have its reflection to others. Everyone can take part in creating a new mutual consciousness of life ... a home for all beings. I send my love to all of you!
- Christian, Vienna   13 Feb 2008

Thank you all for believing in peace and achieving it. with peace in our hearts we will shine into bliss and the world, as our beloved mother, will love us back!! Let the peace reach out into the smallest and deepest corners of the eart and embrace every lonely beeing on this planet!!!!!
- misha, Helsinki   12 Feb 2008