Peace

"I leave you peace... a peace the world cannot give."

This is one of my favourite words from Christ. Each time I hear it or see it, it touches me immensely.

Because it is so true and so real. How is it that one man, who lived 2000 years ago, can bring us a Peace so deep and all-engulfing that we cannot find elsewhere?

So the problems don't stop after crossing our "Red Sea", after immersing ourselves in our "River of Jordan"...
And we still face our temptations every other day (or every other minute for some!) and probably will for the next 40 years too!

But how is it that through all these, there is an unshaken peace within us? How is it that our other little hobbies (including not so holistic ones) that give us the delights of this world, don't give us that all-satisfying peace that quietens our very soul and lifts us way up high at the same time?

It IS a peace that the world can never give.
I just cannot get over how this simple gift can be so precious and how it is that we're bestowed with it.

What are your favourite words?

Joyce