Please take a moment to look at all your answers to all the questions so far; in order to see the foundation you already have, as well as areas you might like to work on. Do you feel firmly grounded in your decision to create inner peace for yourself?

Inner peace is a lifetime process and even when I didn’t know what inner peace was; I was still working on it. To encourage you to look at similar things, I wanted to give you a glimpse of what either disturbed my peace in my childhood or gave me gifts and/or tools to create and maintain it. And to give some baseline regarding what about my attitudes gave me a head start or had to be overcome. I hope you’ve been able to see the same for yourself.

In looking for events in my childhood to illustrate points of peace I had learned; I realized that it wasn’t events that gave me peace. It was decisions I made. And it’s not even specific decisions. Although, as I’ve illustrated, various decisions led to various bits of foundation that point towards creating an inner peace. It’s the one decision to find peace no matter what the events or circumstances are that will eventually make the difference. It’s a rather odd exercise to look at various points of our life and ask: “What did this teach me relative to building peace within myself?”