The Price of Peace
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Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert
Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert is the founder of National Information Resource Services (NIRS), an organization committed to educating people on the home care industry. Currently residing in Newport Coast, CA, Rejoyce is the General Manager of MemorialCare Home Caregivers. She is also a nationally recognized advocate for the elderly
and is one of the most highly-sought after speakers in her field. She is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and continues to work hard and help people realize their own goals.By Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert
Published on 07/2/2009
So many times we hear the phrase “I just want peace in my life.” Or how
about “You give me peace of mind;” what is PEACE? Is peace a state of
mind? Is it an emotional feeling? Or is it a natural part of every
human being that can be activated with a thought or desire. Why does it
seem as though some people live in a peaceful state of mind, while
others seem lost and unhappy?
Last week Thursday July 25, 2009 the world lost a musical icon. The news media has spent the last seven days dissecting and unraveling the life of that icon. Friends and acquaintances have used their fifteen minutes of fame to reflect on the life of this man. The words most used to describe him were talented, professional, nice, loving, kind, and lonely. Ironically, a man who had global recognition, who was beloved world wide, and whose name made him billions of dollars, considered himself to be the loneliest person alive.
He had power, fame, popularity, and money; all the things most people who were not born into a wealthy family dream of. People surrounded this man at all times. He was a man who was born into a working family that struggled financially, who was given a gift of life, who became King of Pop. His life is a true rag to riches story.
Yet that is not the story that caught my attention. The story that caught my attention was the loneliness of this great man; the lack of peace and joy in this man’s life. It is already established that money cannot buy love, and now I have come to acknowledge that money cannot buy peace. Peace allows us to accept the past with the present; the good with the bad. Peace allows us to forgive the wrongs that we believe have been done to us. It allows us to love unconditionally, to grow, to move on, and to create a better person from the inside out.
In my line of work, I see people whose dreams were curtailed by an accident or an illness, yet they were so at peace within themselves that they actually bounced back despite doctors saying, “You will never walk again.” And two years later a personal trainer emerges from the bed of a coma.
We all are giving the measure of peace within our being, but in order to activate our peace we first must be able to acknowledge our rights as a human being. We must be willing to accept responsibilities for our own shortcomings, and allow forgiveness of those who have caused us pain and suffering.
We must embrace our years of struggling, suffering and growing pains. Instead of hating the teachers, we should be thankful to them for their pain and suffering and for developing the strength of mind, body, and soul within our spirits as a result.
Icon, or every day Joe or Josephine we all are just flesh and blood. We all have one thing in common; we are all born into this world, and some day we will die. In the middle between life and death we have many options, but I still believe the most simple and important option one can choose is to live a peaceful, content, and harmonious life. When all the chasing of the wind and the grasping for time is over, HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED? There is still time to write the ending to your life story.
He had power, fame, popularity, and money; all the things most people who were not born into a wealthy family dream of. People surrounded this man at all times. He was a man who was born into a working family that struggled financially, who was given a gift of life, who became King of Pop. His life is a true rag to riches story.
Yet that is not the story that caught my attention. The story that caught my attention was the loneliness of this great man; the lack of peace and joy in this man’s life. It is already established that money cannot buy love, and now I have come to acknowledge that money cannot buy peace. Peace allows us to accept the past with the present; the good with the bad. Peace allows us to forgive the wrongs that we believe have been done to us. It allows us to love unconditionally, to grow, to move on, and to create a better person from the inside out.
In my line of work, I see people whose dreams were curtailed by an accident or an illness, yet they were so at peace within themselves that they actually bounced back despite doctors saying, “You will never walk again.” And two years later a personal trainer emerges from the bed of a coma.
We all are giving the measure of peace within our being, but in order to activate our peace we first must be able to acknowledge our rights as a human being. We must be willing to accept responsibilities for our own shortcomings, and allow forgiveness of those who have caused us pain and suffering.
We must embrace our years of struggling, suffering and growing pains. Instead of hating the teachers, we should be thankful to them for their pain and suffering and for developing the strength of mind, body, and soul within our spirits as a result.
Icon, or every day Joe or Josephine we all are just flesh and blood. We all have one thing in common; we are all born into this world, and some day we will die. In the middle between life and death we have many options, but I still believe the most simple and important option one can choose is to live a peaceful, content, and harmonious life. When all the chasing of the wind and the grasping for time is over, HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED? There is still time to write the ending to your life story.