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PEACE....PRICELESS


Is there a price for peace? I guess for those who sell your kind of peace, the answer is yes. Otherwise, the price for peace are the hardships we travail. Hopefully, many of us have a peaceful remedy to our bumpy life sometimes.

How you deal with the pressures of life says a lot about you, your up-bringing, and how well you cope with certain issues. In recalling Jordan Spieth's golf game come absolutely "unglued" at The Masters, the ideas of Pressures, Price and Peace came to mind. How he dealt with the issue when it was occurring and then the aftermath was respectable.

Jordan's golf tragedy reminded me of what some people's days might look like. Swing after swing, stroke after stroke Jordan could not have anything go right. Some people have days like that - one might "wake-up on the wrong side of the bed", have a vocal disagreement with the boss, miss an appointment, wife will be home late, one of the kids was in a car accident, dinner has to be arranged for the other child and the water-heater broke.

Some may say, "Is that all Chad? Cause I have had more happen in my life." To that I say, "I am sorry for you." However, I mention all the peace-stealers to place in your mind what you know that which gives you Peace. If what grants you peace is solving the issue + a massage, or a quiet get-away, or reading, or yard work, etc... - then go to your happy place or your peaceful place. Yes you have paid the price for the peace you are now getting restored to you, but to regain a semblance of peace is as the Mastercard commercials go - Peace....Priceless.

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