Walk in Peace
During this Advent week of “Peace” I’ve been praying and asking God to, “let me feel His Peace.” This led me to question what God’s peace feels like anyways. Sometimes I feel peaceful in the mornings when the fire is lit, the house is quiet, and the coffee is hot. Sometimes I feel peaceful when Amelia is playing and learning. Sometimes I feel peace when we go on family walks. But isn’t God’s peace “supposed to transcend all understanding.” (Philippians 4:7) These peaceful moments are just that, they are moments, nothing that seems to last forever. What does it feel like to have this peace that Paul says will guard your heart and mind? “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that ...