Tuesday, V week of Easter: 5th May, 2015
Acts 14: 19-28; Jn 14: 27-31a
Peace. ...the gift of the Risen Lord. Peace would mean lack of conflicts and an absence of turbulence, in ordinary terms. But Jesus seems very particular that the peace that the Lord gives us is not the same as the peace that the world thinks.
It is not lack of conflicts but it is a victory over all conflicts, inner, societal and universal! It is not an absence of turbulence but a transcending of all turbulence, a rising above all disturbance and a resolution of all crisis not an absence of them. We see this clearly in the lives of Paul, Barnabas and other apostles who seem to perfectly understand the peace of the Lord. One trouble over, they were up for the next. Their peace was in the Lord and nothing could stop them from making it their own. Amidst all the turbulence, disturbance and crisis they enjoyed a peace and serenity that no one even comprehended.
Do you dare pray for that peace, the peace of the Lord?
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