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When you think of a typical day in the life of a busy mom, one word probably doesn’t come to mind – peace. Yet peace is what’s needed most. Peace is the absence of worry, self-doubt, scattered thoughts, and restless minds. The Peace Seat is both a perfect visual and yet practical tool to help you shift when life feels overwhelming.
I want you to know this concept and embrace it. It’s a helpful visual that helps us to really shift the way we’re showing up and operating in our days, especially during those hectic seasons of our life. I want you to have this concept deep down in your soul so you can pull from it to make the shift out of overwhelm and distraction into a place of intention and purpose. That is going to help you be more effective in the tools you’re learning here on the podcast every week.
Imagine that you were a citizen in a kingdom that had a queen on the throne. In that kingdom there is a lot of growth, change, and transition happening because the kingdom is expanding and new things are happening. You’re finding new people are joining and coming in. There’s so much change, but so much good in the midst of that change. Change can be a positive thing, but can also come with some challenges.
As this growth and change happens, you start noticing that the queen becomes agitated. She’s stepped away from the throne and is down in the streets doing work – working with the people, doing things for people, running around. It’s not that she’s there to be of service as much as she’s become so anxious, worried, and fretful that she’s taken on this position of, “I’ll do it myself.” And off she goes. And you notice she’s looking bedraggled and doesn’t have the beautiful countenance of a queen that you would imagine. She now looks frantic, almost desperate, as she’s running around. How do you think the citizens begin to feel if the queen of the kingdom is now worried and anxious and afraid and fretful?
If you can imagine that scene, I want you to imagine your own home. And you are the queen in that kingdom. Your children are citizens of the kingdom that God has given you the domain over. I want you to imagine that in your home and in your heart, you have this beautiful seat. This works visually and also physically. Picture that seat to be a big comfortable place that you would want to spend time. It’s from that seat that you operate. If you can’t physically be in that chair in your home, in your heart you have a seat of peace and you sit in it.
Over top of that seat is a sign that reads, “Peace. Rest. Calm.” It’s the absence of agitation, irritation, worry, and desperation. It’s the opposite of that. It’s the place where we’re free from that, where things are settled. There is a sense of calm, order, a place of knowing and trusting. From that place you lead your children and operate from your Peace Seat. You sit in that seat either physically or you have that place in your heart. You tap into the peace and there’s a seat of peace in your heart.
It’s from the Peace Seat that you make decisions and move throughout the kingdom. The queen is operating from her best position to manage the kingdom that she has domain over. That’s what I want to give you as a visual. That Peace Seat has saved me. Every single day there are challenges that want to pull me up out of the seat to go handle. Whether it’s kids arguing or so many things that need to be done and nobody seems to be getting them done in the time frame I think they should happen . . .
When I remember to operate from my Peace Seat it may mean that I get up and do work and make things happen. But I’m not doing this from a frantic desperation. I’m doing this as a queen would, as I show up with a trusted confidence in what I’m called to do with a sense of peace in my movements, in my words. There’s a sense of trust in my posture and my approach to the challenges I’m facing. It’s an entirely different experience than when I’m operating from a place of worry and desperation when I’ve given up my place in the Peace Seat.
I want you to recognize that you can both have a physical seat in your home where you operate from a place of peace, or you can just have that image in your heart. When life is coming at you fast and furious you can choose to take a seat in your mind and heart, in your Peace Seat, and go and handle what you need to do. You do this as if you’re a queen sitting in her seat operating from a place of peace and from a sense of trust that the God you serve has everything taken care of.
I am hoping that you grab hold of this visual and find it helpful and encouraging and put this into place. Continue to operate from that peace seat, mama.
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