Invaluable

 

  As each day turns into the next, it becomes more difficult for me to watch the news.  It's hard to start or end a day focused on the rising death rate of the pandemic.  It's difficult to watch troops being deployed throughout the country to protect ourselves from each other.  It has left me feeling very unsettled.  I long more than ever to feel the peace of Christ in my life.  I long for the days when I was able turn to my neighbor and offer them a sign of peace--a handshake.

  This week I am going to intentionally pray for peace and ask God to allow me to feel His peace in my life.  I'm going to close my eyes and imagine seeing God's love intersecting with Truth.  I believe that is where peace resides, and that is where I long to be.  I would like to invite all of you to join me.  

  I think peace tends to be under-rated, but it is absolutely necessary.  After Jesus' Resurrection, He appeared to the disciples and said, "Peace be with you."  He said this twice and then breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit."  Imagine all the things Jesus could have said the first time He saw the disciples after His crucifixion and Resurrection, but twice Jesus offers them peace.  As disciples, we too, must be filled with peace.  Perhaps it is because the voice of God is heard most clearly when we are at peace, and it is these moments that the Kingdom is unveiled. 

May the peace of Christ be with you.

-Susan