Embrace Peace

Protecting your peace is so important because you only have one life to live and in order to enjoy this life you have to guard it. This means that you have to protect yourself from yourself by not extending yourself further, than if needed. Sometimes we do things just to do things and we do not consider the weight that thing has on us. We don’t consider if it is even something that we're good at or will be more helpful or actually be less helpful. We tend to put ourselves in positions that we are not strong in and or have the capacity to hold at the moment, yet we do it out of the kindness of our hearts,

Sometimes we will go beyond knowing we can't fit anything else it's just like a schedule-we create schedules and have planners so that we can set in place what we’re supposed to be doing and prioritize of course, but then we also have appointments. We have different engagements and opportunities that appear and come available to us and therefore we have to add them to our schedule, so there are things that are already on our calendars and what we end up doing sometimes, knowing that we can only fit and we only have enough hours in the day but because we're trying to be nice and show up for everyone that we end up feeling frustrated, overwhelmed and confused because we're extending ourselves beyond what we have fit into our calendar.

I want you to consider guarding your peace by protecting peace so much by not going to say anything or doing anything that God has not told you to because we have to be cautious and aware of what we're adding to our plate so we will not feel drained but that it refills us because only God is supposed to do the expanding. It's OK to say no it's OK to say- I can't do that right now. The past weeks we have been talking about embracing your flaws, embracing your weaknesses as well as embracing your strength, will you begin to embrace those things then you're able to understand and learn how to protect your peace because sometimes we can make more of a mess of something and end up messing it up and take more time away from what we're supposed to be doing to clean it up, so let's make sure that we are protecting our peace by embracing it.

It's OK to have downtime. It's OK to have quiet time. It's OK sometimes to sleep in a little longer. I had a train myself to say it's OK Melody for you to sleep in a little longer. It's OK Melody for you to sit still. It's OK Melody for you just to turn off the phone for a minute and put it on silent notification. It's OK because you're protecting your peace. Guarding your peace does not mean you don't love people and do not think you want to help people, but you're saying that if I'm not here, then guess what I won't be able to expand when God tells me to expand.

My Dad used to say -Listen, learn, obey, and do. The statement helped me to understand that as God tells me then I can either learn the lesson, obey God's voice, and then walk out and or act it out. This is going to help you to guard and protect your peace so if we can guard your peace this week and walk in peace! Peace and Blessings!