“How peaceful it’s in here!” said a friend of mine as he sat in my living room.
“Peaceful?” I asked surprised.
My friend went to the window and opened another shutter, “Can you hear the rustling of the leaves? You are so lucky Bob, you have a peepul tree just outside and what a sound, a thousand leaves whispering in the breeze!”
“Still yourself!” said my friend. “Cut off all the other sounds like a superior mike and listen only to these peaceful sounds!” I did, and have learnt to do it everyday and enjoy the trees speaking gently even as they silently show me different colours of green.
My daughter who lives in Manhattan, New York, had spoken to me later, “Dad, I wish I hadn’t shifted from my previous flat next to Central Park! From this new house I have to walk quite far to get there!”
I remembered her previous flat, all we had to do was get out of her home, cross the road and into Central Park. We had spent many beautiful moments, she and I, as we had traversed the park together, sat by the lake, heard a soprano sing rapturous melodies, watched the swans and sometimes just walked.
“Put Central Park in your head!” I had said.
“What?” she’d asked.
“Can you picture every peaceful spot you’ve been in there? Vividly and clearly?”
“Yes,” said my daughter.
“The places where we both sat?”
I heard her say yes again.
“Now just put that picture in your mind, and slip into it. That’s going to be the place where you can disappear whenever you get stressed! Your own piece of Central Park or maybe the whole of it, where you can walk and run or just sit still and watch the swans!”
I know she did, and from her busy flat in Manhattan, where she’d watched cars whizzing down below, people hurrying to work, and tourists milling round Times Square, she created an oasis of calm in her head, and disappeared inside whenever she wanted a few moments of peace!
You can too! Create a beautiful place in your mind. Imagine the trees you want, a pond, a river or stream, sit awhile, put your feet into the gentle flowing water…
Something I also do is to feel my Lord sitting by me, talking to me, and listening quietly to problems I tell Him. Or even joys I share with Him!
You can to, in that peaceful place you create!
Today, in this extended lockdown, sit wherever you want and spend time in that peaceful park in your head..!

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