Love Oracle 40 – A Return to Peace

There are many ways we return to peace.

Not as something we reach once and hold onto…
but as a living experience we move in and out of, again and again.

Sometimes, it asks us to release what we’ve been carrying.
Sometimes, it meets us in a moment of being held.
Sometimes, it rises quietly from within.
And sometimes, it begins as something small we choose to nurture.

Each of these paintings holds a different doorway into that return.

Take a moment to look at them.

Notice which one draws you in…
or perhaps which one stays with you.

Then scroll down to find its message.

You may feel called to one, or to all four.

Trust what speaks.

Dear Beloved,

There is something you have been holding very carefully.

Perhaps for a long time.
Perhaps without even realizing the weight of it.

You have carried it with care… with responsibility… with the quiet belief that it is yours to manage, to resolve, to keep steady.

And yet, there is a gentle invitation here.

Not to try harder.
Not to hold more tightly.

But to offer it up.

To place it… fully… into something greater than your own effort.

What if you didn’t have to keep holding this alone?

What if peace is not something you create through control…
but something you enter through surrender?

There is a deeper intelligence moving through your life.
One that does not rush.
One that does not strain.

It does not ask you to abandon what you care about—
only to release the way you are carrying it.

Even now, you can soften your grip.

Even now, you can take one thing—just one—
and lift it into the hands of peace.

Not as a final act.
But as a beginning.

And then notice…

what begins to hold you in return.

Painting: Into the Hands of Peace (12″ x 36″)
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Dear Beloved,

You have learned how to be strong.

How to keep going.
How to hold yourself steady, even when things feel uncertain.

And this strength is real.

But there is another way peace meets you.

Not through effort…
but through allowing.

There are moments when you are not being asked to stand taller…
but to soften.

To let yourself be supported in ways you may not fully see or understand.

And sometimes… that begins with a simple willingness to ask.

To reach toward someone you trust.
To let another person show up for you.
To allow care to move toward you in a tangible, human way.

Or to turn inward… and quietly ask your Team of Divine Helpers to come closer.
To support you.
To hold what you cannot.

What if being held is not something that just happens…
but something you can open to?

Peace does not always arrive as clarity or resolution.

Sometimes, it comes as an embrace.
Through presence.
Through connection.
Through the quiet ways support finds you when you let it.

You may notice it in a conversation that softens something inside you.
In a hand on your shoulder.
In the unseen comfort that meets you when you pause and ask.

Can you allow that?

Not by pushing…
but by opening.

You are not meant to carry everything alone.

There is strength in what you hold.

And there is also strength in letting yourself be held—
by others,
by the unseen,
and by life itself.

Painting: Held in the Arms of Peace (12″ x 24″)
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Dear Beloved,

There is a part of you that is always at peace.

Not because life is quiet.
Not because the mind is still.

But because it exists beneath all of that.

You may have noticed how quickly your attention is drawn outward—
toward what needs to be done, understood, or resolved.

And yet, the peace you seek is not waiting for you there.

It is waiting for you within.

Not as something to achieve…
but as something to return to.

You do not need a perfect practice.
You do not need to quiet every thought.

You only need a moment of willingness.

A breath where you pause.
A soft turning inward.

Even now, you can feel it.

That subtle presence.
That quiet awareness that has been here all along.

What happens if you rest there… even briefly?

Not reaching.
Not striving.

Just allowing yourself to be with what is already true.

There is a joy that lives in this space.

Not loud.
Not fleeting.

But steady… and ever-renewing.

The more you turn toward it,
the more it reveals itself to you.

And the more you begin to recognize—

you were never separate from it.

Painting: Peace as Ever New Joy (12″ x 24″)
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Dear Beloved,

Not everything in your life is meant to bloom all at once.

There are things quietly taking root within you.
Small shifts.
New ways of being that may not yet be fully visible.

It can be easy to overlook them.

To focus instead on what hasn’t arrived…
what isn’t clear…
what still feels unfinished.

And yet, there is another way of meeting this moment.

What if you are exactly where you need to be?

Not by accident…
but through everything you have lived, chosen, and walked through to arrive here.

There is peace in that.

A quiet settling into the truth that nothing has been wasted.
That every step has shaped who you are… and what is now ready to grow.

From here, your attention can soften and shift.

Not toward what is missing—
but toward what is already taking root.

What is going well?
What feels aligned, even in a small way?
What is asking for your care, your presence, your continued yes?

These are your seeds.

Some you have already planted.
Some are beginning to take hold.
And some are ready now… waiting for you to bring them into the light of your awareness.

Peace is found here.

In honouring what you have already begun—
and in consciously tending what is ready to grow next.

You are not behind.

You are in the midst of your own unfolding.

And your life, as it is right now,
is the ground from which your tree continues to grow.

Stay with it.
Care for it.

And trust what is becoming.

Painting: Planting Seeds of Peace (12″ x 24″)
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