This Sunday At Peace


Scripture: Luke 8:26-39

Thanks to 'The Artist Way' group we did at Peace early in 2025, I've adopted a practice of long-hand writing a couple pages every morning (aptly called "morning pages").

Not pages of story for my book--but an all-out chaotic brain dump. My friend calls it her "meeting with herself." It's been an enlightening and valuable practice. The brain dump typically includes lists of all the things I want to do that day, gratitude from the previous day, things I'm excited about or proud of--and things I'm anxious about or places I've fallen short.

And perhaps one of the most enlightening pieces of these morning pages is when the same thing keeps coming up day after day after day. Generally, that falls into the anxieties and shortcomings category. It's the stuff where I need to be making change. But the pages help reveal that my action to change isn't happening.

It might seem strange to pair this anecdote with a scripture about Jesus casting out demons, but both point to a broader question: What holds us back from the kind of change that liberates us, that liberates others, that heals the world?

It's gospel work, and we'll endeavor to do it together.

Peace to you,

Paula