Remembering Our Peace
“I just want peace!” I cried, as my little boy had yet another tantrum after being told not to stand on the kitchen table. I was surrounded by water running in the sink, messy counters, and a bowl of raw dough still needing to be cooked.
Maybe as a mom you exclaimed those same words as you threw your hands in the air while your children bickered over a toy for the tenth time that day. Maybe as a friend caught in a dispute you cried, “Can we just be at peace with one another?” Perhaps at work you wished for a peaceful day without any hitches. Perhaps you said it one weary day of scrolling through social media passing by bad news after more bad news.
We want peace. While some of us enjoy the ups and downs of a roller coaster, most of us don’t want that reflected in our daily lives. We like our calendars to be filled in an orderly fashion so we can flip to future weeks and see how life will play out. We want our relationships to be predictable. But in a world cursed with thorns and thistles—or perhaps in better words, pandemics and paranoia—that’s not always the case.
How do we tuck peace away in our hearts when we live in a sin-struck world? Where do we find “peace that surpasses all understanding” (Phil. 4:6-7) when our world feels anything but peaceful?
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