Saturday, December 15, 2012

I'll have some Peace, please.

It is a great thing to laud peace as a virtue, and entirely another to have it, to know it within you.
When you want peace, is it something you command?
i.e.:
"Hallo peace, I'm confounded. Please now, get in my brain."
and,
"Oh, there you are, peace -- I had been looking allll over for you!  Now please, don't run off on me, again.  Tbh you're great, but have been a little fickle on me.  Or is it me?  Am I doing something to drive you away?"

"Peace is experienced as we believe what the Bible says about God’s nearness as in Psalm 139:1-12, and about His goodness and power, His mercy and love for His children... But we can’t trust someone we don’t know, and it is crucial, therefore, to come to know intimately the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.

Peace is experienced as a result of prayer. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7)."
 - http://www.gotquestions.org/peace-of-mind.html


Perhaps it's really so simple as a sincere prayer away.  Even when we're uncertain 'about all that' -

It just takes the faith of a little seed
to make a way through what might seem to be

Impossibility,
And the ability will match the occasion
The outcome will defy explanation...

  (from Josh Garrels' The Resistance )


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