Peace is an inside out job

​Many of us are trying to build peace in our lives with a process that is upside down.

It's like building a house, and trying to put the roof on before we build the basement. That's a pretty big construction flaw. It's a blueprint for disaster.

Much like the disaster many of us face when seeking peace.

Many of us live exhausting lives as we battle to create peace around us with hopes it will soothe the turmoil within. When if we spent more time creating peace within, the world around us wouldn't feel so much like turmoil.

My peace is a quiet walk in the woods. It's where I discover me. The world we are often trying to make peace out of is often taking the peace out of us.

So we retreat into our retreat.

And emerge having made a deal with ourselves - and with the world - that if the peace on my outside doesn't look like the peace on my inside, then it must stay on the outside.

Because peace is an inside out process.

Too often we let the world become the measure our peace. But the world is not where we will find it.

We will find it in the woods.

We will find it inside.