SOUL MAIL Sunday: Let Your Peaceful Presence Be the True Focus

Written By Susan Sholle-Martin

Hi Everyone! Today I’m resurrecting the idea of SOUL MAIL SUNDAY posts which I shared during the covid pandemic from 3-17-2020 through 8-1-2021. Much has happened in the world these past 5 years, but here we are again in the present moment. 

This week, I’ve been pondering the recent sermon of Bishop Wm. Barber, President of Repairers of the Breach. It included a review of significant civil rights events from the past that occurred during June. He reminded us about the Miami University of Ohio students who learned to assist people in registering to vote and participated in Freedom Summer on 6/14/1964. (This happens to be where my brother and sister-in-law have been tenured professors in the Communications Department.) Back in 1964, the mostly white college students traveled to Mississippi to empower disenfranchised African American voters. Their efforts were a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This factual historical event is worthy of celebrating today, Sunday, June 14th, 2026! It commemorates that each of us has a peaceful nonviolent way of expressing our true self and our vision. Perhaps it is time to pause and ask: How can we express our true self without causing harm?

This SOUL MAIL seems to be the perfect message for us today!

SOUL MAIL ART watercolor image for Let Your Peaceful Presence Be the True Focus

Let Your Peaceful Presence Be the True Focus

A solitary soul comes to me

in their own goodness.

I take nothing from them.

I only bless them to express,

to be more of who they truly are.

My vision is clear, but your vision is your own.

It comes from the light planted within you.

It is a gift in the making.

When you feel peace,

you will know that your vision is pure,

that it will do no harm.

When fear enters the picture,

then vision is lost or covered up, and

distorted by images that do not grow love.

You know what peace is.

It is part of your very being.

So trust you know it well.

Let it wash over you.

It brings no resistance or fight.

When the spirit of resistance is upon you,

it is smothering out peace and

has no true place in your home.

Let your words be few and carefully chosen.

Let your peaceful presence be

the true focus each and every day.

Susan Sholle-Martin

Susan Sholle-Martin experiences being a creative healing artist, teacher, writer, and grandmother and inspires people to grow from challenges and create the life they love. She lives in Southeast Texas where she creates healing art and teaches art classes in a diverse community with children and adults of all ages. Her joy is traveling and sharing her SOUL MAIL messages wherever life takes her. Susan earned a BA in Fine Art from Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA, a master’s in Occupational Therapy at Western Michigan University, and Master Life Coach Certification through Life Coach Universe in affiliation with Florida SW State College. Her paintings have been exhibited in CO, PA, MI and FL. Using the arts is a part of her own healing and living a healthy lifestyle.

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