Picking Things Back Up Part 1

[00:00:16.66]Hey my people, I’m back. Now, here it is. You have my permission to want good things again
[00:00:25.86]’cause we did ‘Letting Go’ and it was all so deep. But now we’re picking things back up.
[00:00:33.37]And this is episode one of ‘Picking Things Back Up’. Now the first thing we’re going to pick is Peace.
[00:00:41.39]So welcome back. Now, here it is. Peace isn’t loud. It’s not ‘ati’ confetti and announcements and
[00:00:52.74]“A-li-li-li-li-li!” I don’t know what. No! Peace sounds boring. Sometimes, you know, quiet mornings.
[00:01:04.10]No more checking of your social media page, sleeping through the night.
[00:01:11.61]And what you need to remember, this same peace, you lost it sometime back when you were gripping
[00:01:21.70]too tight to stuff, too tight to relationships, too tight to projects that weren’t working, too
[00:01:26.83]tight to control. So today, we pick it up gently. Choose one quiet thing, not ‘ati’ (like) 10 habits.
[00:01:39.78]One. Five minutes of no phone. Have some tea without scrolling.
[00:01:46.65]Silence is peace coming back. Now, you need to stop arguing in your head, having a meeting with
[00:02:00.03]You, Yourself and You, you know, with them, with whoever hurt you,
[00:02:07.23]and with the naysayers and even with God. So you drop that case. Not everything needs a verdict.
[00:02:18.49]But the only thing you need to really do,
[00:02:23.78]guard your gates. You know your gates, your heart, your emotions, your what?
[00:02:29.38]Guard them by what you watch, who you text, what you replay at 2am.
[00:02:38.98]Peace will die there first. Okay, so you’ve got to guard it. And peace won’t chase you.
[00:02:46.74]You have to pick it up, okay? If your chest feels tight right now, exhale.
[00:03:02.82]That’s peace saying, “I’m still here.”
[00:03:07.86]And you deserve some quiet. So pick it up.