“Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.”― Dalai Lama XIV

It’s 12 : 25  PM on day 2178 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Genesis 12:2-3  , have breakfast, learn one new thing –The first pay phone was invented in 1889 and by 1902, there were over 81,000 pay telephones in the United States. In 1889, the first public coin telephone was installed by inventor William Gray at a bank in Hartford, Conn.-   and work on my  25 Smiles Campaign    –    raised $7 600 only  $4 900 more to raise to reach my second goal of raising $12 500 for Smile Train before Jan 10 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far ) .

Today I realized that oftentimes in life people don’t just destroy peace we – the people whose peace is being destroyed – give them – our peace-destoyers – the power to do it which is good news because the moment each of us decides to keep our peace forevermore nobody in the world can take it away from us ever again.

“I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.” – Godfrey Reggio

It’s 12 :  10 PM on day 1702 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Hosea 1, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing – The ruins of Copán in Honduras contain some of the world’s best preserved Maya temples, tombs, and hieroglyphs. The ancient empire was at its zenith around A.D. 750. –  feed myself an egg sandwich for breakfast  and  promote my Educate Generations campaign– $2 899 raised so far  .

Last night with a heavy heart I was thinking about all that was wrong with the world and how we could fix it I truly believe that if each of us chose peace over retaliation for the short period that we were on earth peace would be possible. Peace be on earth.

In the midst of chaos you have to be the peace you want to see– that’s what I realized this morning.

It’s 12 : 59 PM on day 1545 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Isaiah 30,   publish my Disability of the Day feature,   promote my Educate Generations campaign– Laurieann Janssens  donated $20 yesterday (thank you SO MUCH Laurieann  ) which brings my total raised to $1 090 only $1 410  more to raise to  reach goal–  feed myself a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, continue reading Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult – we had another power outage this time it lasted about two and a half hours I didn’t mind I enjoyed my reading time when life gives you lemons make lemonade 🙂 –  and continue promoting my campaign – still on $1 090.

This morning I realized in the midst of chaos you have to be the peace you want to see sometimes when people are yelling, screaming and in angst you tend to yell, scream and be anxious but maybe if you stay calm the people who are yelling, screaming and in angst will look at you and go what the heck are we doing. Are you the peace you want to see in the midst of chaos?