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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