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May-August, 2025

A Recipe for Peace!

by Rev. Vicki Evans, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Today I woke up thinking about anger and while acknowledging that anger is a human feeling, I also had thoughts about how anger is almost like its own being.

Holy Spirit even provided me with an emoji type image of a yellow and red flame with arms and legs, running erratically in all directions until it finds a place to ignite. The being of anger is a thief that steals or takes away present moments of joy and happiness, replacing precious memories and peace with bitter thoughts and distorted memories focusing on the negative. Anger also seems to enjoy creating fear for future events which leads to a domino effect of dread in place of happy anticipation!

What combustible elements come together to create this tornado of feelings that replace the calmness of peace?  The emotional cauldron of ego asks for a recipe of the ingredients of judgment, mind reading, false assumptions, fear, frustration, confusion, insecurities and personalization.

Holy Spirit gave me a visual of a large cauldron and the more negative ingredients that were added to the pot, the higher the steam of anger arose! The present moment became a room filled with gray smoke and felt hot and humid.  I asked myself: How did the cool open air of peace float away?

When I am in peace, there is a feeling of being free to float around in the present space to reach others in connection with joy, love, humanity, and Oneness, but in anger, I only feel a closed, stifled, claustrophobic space that keeps me grounded in fear and confusion that prevents me from connection and enjoyment. The next result is anger’s friend: Regret over impulsive words I did not mean or spreading darkness instead of Light by choosing ego over Oneness.

The domino effect returns in robbing me of enjoyment of the present and fumbling with my memories so that I incorrectly remember events as filled with unfairness, aloneness, isolation and bitterness. Then worries about the future creep in with dread, fear, and anger presents a negative cycle of self-sabotaging rumination through the process of repeating negative thoughts, what-ifs, and shoulds tumbling over and over in my mind.

To regain peace, I need an immediate dose of the loving and kind nurturing thoughts of Holy Spirit.

How can I turn the heat down on the cauldron, dump the negative ingredients, take a step back and create a new life recipe with the new ingredients of Love, Light, calm, Oneness, gratitude, empathy and positivity with the outcome of peace?

As I consider this new recipe for life, I am given a visual of a crystal-clear glass pot that holds all of my beloved ingredients that I can use to bring back peace. I want to trade my tarnished old iron cauldron of anger and hatred for a crystal-clear vessel of peace.

Now I ask myself: How can I put this new recipe into my real life?  As I have already identified my new ingredients, I now proceed to putting anger control into practice.  How can I create the Light that I want in my world? How can I see the Light in others?  I start with that image I remember from Pathways of Light courses where there is a drawing of two people facing each other and through Light, they create a bridge of connection between them as they are one and mirror images of each other in Oneness.

Instead of feeling singled out, how can I see myself as connected to others?

I can remind myself that I don’t know what is going on in the lives of others. Empathy encourages me to acknowledge the shared journey of life’s ups and downs.

I remember learning that anger is a mask for fear and frustration which reminds me of a rigid iron cauldron, whereas trust and peace bring up my visual of a crystal-clear glass pot.

When anger tries to surface, I can summon peace by going to Holy Spirit to provide thoughts and visuals of Light along with taking a deep breath.

I also like to go back to my visual of each of us wearing a physical coat that we are given and doing the best we can with our assigned coat of life that makes up our physical being, but take away the physical coat and we are all One and connected.

I saw the word FEAR as an acronym for my old recipe of life:

F – False; E – Ego;  A – Arrogance or Anger; R – Regret.

I see COAT as an acronym for the life I   want to live:

C – Compassion; O – Oneness; A – Acceptance; and T – Thankful.

These ingredients are my new recipe to remind myself that I want to go to Holy Spirit and ask for peace and remember that we are all God’s Light!

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