I was playing cards with my two kids. We were shuffling the packs and choosing which half we wanted. Instead of left or right, I was calling the pack purple or turquoise, ice cream or pancakes, baked beans or chicken. The kids found this hilarious. Then it was my six year old boy’s time to shuffle and split the pack and me to choose. He thought for a while. And then asked: Rich or peaceful? I felt my brain and heart explode. What a profound question?
Now rich or peaceful is probably a no brainer. But I’ve been noticing how busyness is seriously creeping back into my life. And with it, peace is leaving. I’m seeing that busyness isn’t necessarily about having a lot to do. There’s almost always a lot to do right? It’s more that I’ve fallen back into the mindset of needing to be ‘productive’. I need to be achieving something. I need to be striving. In order to attain 'riches' of some sort. It's wanting and not believing I'll get it. And the thing is… for me, there is something in the grasping, in the fight, that smells of distrust. I can only see that so acutely this time because in July and August I really slowed down. Enough to be still. And when I was able to still my monkey mind I started to trust and know what I really needed to do. More often than not – things came to me how and when I needed them. I think what I’m talking about here is Grace. What it is to live in a state of Grace. Be full of Grace.
We are taught that we have to go out there and get it. You have to be driven, fight for what you want; struggle. It’s what makes the world go round. Our capitalist society demands it and our protestant work ethic guilts us into it. It’s living in the head and not the heart. Ego, not soul. Doubt not trust. Grasping, not letting go. Coming from a place of lack rather than recognising from a place of peace and stillness we will find all the riches that we need and more. Would you like more peace in your life? To live from soul not ego? Do you have wise children in your life? From the mouths of babes hey!