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MONDAY DEVOTIONAL

How Are You Commanding Your Peace Today? Be Honest.

Maybe it’s time for a time-out, eh?

Nancy Blackman, MASF
4 min readAug 29, 2022

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How Are You Commanding Your Peace Today? Be Honest. by Nancy Blackman, peace, spirituality, God, inner peace
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Spirit, guide me into peace.

The quote by Etty Hillesum got me thinking about how I rein in my peace. If you think about it, sometimes it’s not very different from yanking on the reins of a horse. It’s up to you.

I began to wonder if I have tapped into all of my areas of peace. If I’m honest, it took me many years to command my peace.

One of the things I struggled with early in life was accepting myself just the way I am — nerdy, quirky, and not skinny. Yeah, I struggled with that last one for years.

Leave me a note in the comments if you still struggle with that one. I will pray for you.

I wasn’t born skinny. In fact, I came out of a tiny woman at almost 10 lbs.

Here’s the thing, though. It took me a long time and a wonderful husband to speak words of grace…

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Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: The Shortform and Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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