Hope - Peace - Progress - Motivation Monday

Hope - Peace - Progress

I am currently in a group from church that is promoting self reliance, and my group is working on entrepreneurship.

In looking over my goals for the year, I realize that one of them is to have more peace in my life.  So as I consider how to achieve this goal, a statement read in the group contained the phrase "you will be blessed with greater hope - peace and progress".

As I ponder what that looks like in my world, I hope you will join me in considering what that looks like for you as well.

Hope according to Webster:

A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.

So according to this definition, hope is a desire for something good with the expectation that it is obtainable.

Peace 

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose

I like the "freedom from disturbance or agitation" part.

Progress

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

I really like the going forward, because who wants to be going backwards.

Let's try to put that into some type of context.

As I believe I can obtain something desirable, I need to remove agitation from my world in order to move forward.

OK, well there is a sentence now what does it mean to me?

As an artist I work on improving my creativity and my talent.  I expect to get better the more I use either one of those gifts.  But I also recognize that when things don't go as planned, if I allow myself to get frustrated and that ugly side of me comes out, 
I will not have the forward movement I desire.

Anger and frustration takes away my peace, which takes away my progress which negatively impacts any hope I have of improving.

On the flip side, if I want to have forward motion, I can expect it only when I keep agitation as far away as possible.

I think I need to make a sign and put it in my studio.

What are you thoughts on this?  

Leave me a comment about your thoughts, feelings or ideas.

Turquoise Door

36" x 12"

$200

is a painting I did from a dream I had.

The door opens and light comes out around it,

but there is no light source behind it

and the door is not really connected to anything.

You can, however see that many people have walked towards that door because of the worn places on the stones.

When I showed it to one of my grandsons and asked him what he saw he said, "It's a magic door!"

In a way, he is very right.

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