Serenity’s Waiting Podcast

Embracing Serenity: A Pause for Peace

Hello, beloved. It's MarQuita. I wanted to invite you into some space just to rest, pause, and take a deep breath.
Sometimes, life does not do what we want it to do. Sometimes, decisions that we have made place us at odds with those around us, those who live with us, those who love us. Sometimes life just does not go the way that we would like it to. Sometimes loved ones leave us. And sometimes they leave us by death to illness. They sometimes leave us because the relationship has ended or changed in some way. Life does not always behave the way we would love and like it to behave.
However, in this space where serenity is waiting, enter into the pause. Enter in knowing you are amazing. You are amazing. You are absolutely incredible. What you have experienced, endured, and survived makes you a miracle. Miracle, you are celebrated in the pause. You are honored in the pause. And the pause is created for you. You don't have to do anything. Just be. Just be. Be present.
Let's take just a few moments and just be together. Experience rest. Have peace. Take your time. Serenity is waiting.

Healing Rest: Finding Serenity in Self-Reconciliation

Hello, beloved. It's MarQuita, wanting to just check in with you today, and see how you're doing, how you're really doing. I have found that there are times when our rest can be interrupted, our rest can be broken. When we think about the different aggressions, microaggressions, major aggressions, heartaches, and heartbreaks that have been tossed and thrown our way, inflicted upon us even if you will, it can make us deeply sad. It can hurt our feelings.
Sitting in that space too long can cause some of us to feel as if we have little or no value to anyone. We might even begin to believe that something that we have said, something we've done, even our being born, is justification for others' bad behavior toward us. The pain of it, the trauma of it, can break our rest. It can keep rest and sleep at bay.
And there are also times, if we are honest about it, we very well may be missing out on sleep, on rest, on peace, dare I say joy, because of ways that we have caused harm to others. Do you have friendships that have waned? Do you have misunderstandings that have not been straightened out? Do you have anything left unsaid or undone with someone that you really love?
Now, do not understand me to suggest that you go back into re-traumatization or you go back into relationships that are unhealthy? Not. Is there a way that you can reconcile within yourself, and admit that sometimes there may be someplace where a word that you have spoken, a gesture that you have made, or a decision that you carried out caused someone else pain, agony, trauma, or sadness, even if it was unintentional on your part?
There is space within serenity for you to reconcile that, even within yourself. Think about it for just a moment. Where have you mishandled someone else's trust? Where have you fanned a flame that really should have been doused out? Where did you repeat that story you heard? Have you stopped? Have you considered it? Have you forgiven yourself for any harm that you have caused?
This is important, beloved, because sometimes our rest is broken, not because of what someone else has done to us, but sometimes it's because of what we have done to others. So beloved even for us, those of us who are imperfect, those who have not always gotten it right, serenity is still waiting.

Reflecting on Your Day: Finding Serenity Amidst Connections

Hello, beloved, it's MarQuita. Come in, come in, come in. So, how has the day gone? Are you preparing to enter into a new day? Or are you settling in at the end of the day? Take stock of what has been. Then where are the places today that you got it all right? Give yourself a high five. Good, good, good for you. Where are those places that you gave it your best effort? Absolutely. High five, high five. Yay you, yay you.
There were some spaces where you almost missed it. I understand. I understand. And there will be days like this. So what did you learn? What did you learn about yourself today? What did you learn about your folks, people, friends, family, and tribe? What did you learn? Did you spend any time today with people that you love? How did it feel? If you did, how was it? And if you didn't, what did that absence feel like?
Beloved, there will be times when you miss the connectivity with persons that you love. Persons who may not live right next door or in the same state. They may live across the country from you. And technology has advanced so much that they are as close as your next video call. Call them. Just pick up the phone and call them and let them know that you're thinking about them and that they are on your mind.
Did you spend time today with people who vexed you? People who are like sandpaper in a way, they rub you the wrong way. If you did, how was that? How did you come through? And what's your plan going forward? How will you be together to accomplish whatever the goal, whatever the outcomes that are desired? How will you do it? And notice, I'm not asking will you, because I know that you will. But create a plan and a strategy. Decide how you will be in this world.
Will you be quick-tempered? Will you be slow to anger? Will you be always ready for reconciliation? reconciliation, will you be one who will listen and seek understanding? Or if it's not your way, it must be the highway. There can be much to consider, and much to think about at the beginning or at the end of your day. So, lightly and easily, take it all lightly, take it all easy, as you settle in, knowing that on the other side of your contemplation, serenity is waiting.

Embrace Serenity: A Nighttime Ritual for Deep Rest

Hello, beloved, it's MarQuita, wanting to just give you a little exercise for tonight. When was the last time you really put yourself to bed?
I mean, have a wonderful meal, take a warm bath or warm shower, a midnight snack maybe. Set your phone or your devices to read you a short story, no longer than 10 minutes. Have no sound or listen to sounds from outside your window. Have your device play ocean sounds or forest river or forest creeks and brooks babbling. Something that puts your soul at ease.
And then give thanks for the day, for the people in the day, for all that you've seen and all that you have enjoyed, all you've experienced, and all of your hopes for tomorrow. Say them out loud. Speak them out loud into the atmosphere, and then climb in under the covers. Get nice and toasty. If you need a little breeze, crack your window, turn on a fan, and allow yourself to peacefully, fully, deeply drift off to sleep, and you will find in the restfulness of that sleep that serenity is always waiting.