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Duke University did a study and found that the following make exceptional contributions to having "Peace of Mind."
1. Don't nurse a grudge unless you want a nursery filled with mean and angry crying thoughts.
2. Don't as you wake up in the morning start inviting old mistakes and failures to be with you for the rest of the day
3. Don't beat your head bloody trying to change things you know can't be changed.
4. When you emotionally overstressed go out and be with people and the world. It may be the last thing you want to do but it is the first thing you ought to do. Otherwise you become a recluse whose negative thoughts just feed on themselves. Pure and simple, accept the fact that no one gets through life without some raw deals.
5. Cultivate some old-fashioned virtues- love, humor, compassion and loyalty (Duke doesn't say that these truths can be found all over the New Testament)
7. Have big dreams but don't make them so big you have no chance to achieve them. By so doing you can build too wide a gap between self-expectations and your ability to achieve them. When I ran track I set as my goal to run each faster than last time but not as fast as the top runner on the team. He was just too fast.
8. Find yourself something bigger than yourself to believe in. Self-centered egotistical people score lowest in any test for measuring happiness.
Have you heard about the newest gadget to insure peace and quiet at home? It is called a phone-less cord.
And
then there is the couple who, back in the 1980’s, made an extensive
study to find the safest place in the world to live, and then moved to
the Falkland Islands just before they were invaded.
They should, however, not have been surprised for peace is not found in gadgets or particular geographical locations. Real peace is only found inside of each of us:
in souls filled with the Holy Spirit
in lives guided by God’s commandments
in an ongoing communication with the One who set this old world in motion
in living the kind of lives that allow us not be at constant war with ourselves.
Yet mankind continues to pursue the silly rather than the sagacious. Indeed, one man recently commented, "My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of potato
chips and most of a large, luscious chocolate cake. I feel better already."
At first you laugh. And then you think this is no laughing matter for this kind of philosophy really is alive and well in far too many lives.
Remember
those words describing the birth of Christ, "For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his
shoulders. And He will be called, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9 - NIV)
And
what a prince from heaven He was; Christ our Savior King, giving us a
peace-filled commandment to "love on another" and telling us to forgive
each other and be a light undo the world.
For
certainly there is more peace to be found this way than in a life that
hates and constantly seeks vindictiveness and vengeance.
There
is something peacefully powerful about waking up in the morning and
having one of the first thoughts to cross your mind the message this
Jesus brought us.
How much God loves us and how, if we have given ourselves completely to him, we are never alone.
That's when that peace that passeth understanding takes up permanent residence inside of you and you are never the same again.
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