When you offer love, joy, peace, patience, or kindness to the world around you, it’s like providing a water source in a relentless, scorching drought.
02035 – Like Water Source in a Drought
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01898 – Putting Love into Action
Love cannot remain by itself--it has no meaning, Love has to be put into action and that action is service... All works of love are works of peace.
01876 – Seeking Peace?
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us?
01871 – Claiming Your Original Goodness
The peace you lack is not with God, but with yourself. You are not separated from God; you are separated from you. Your challenge is not overcoming your original badness, but staking claim to your original goodness. from Notes from (Over) the Edge
01840 – Let Trouble be in My Day
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
01814 – Valuable and Powerful
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
01813 – War is Always Evil
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
01798 – Fear of Abandonment
Our deepest fear is that we will be abandoned, left alone. When Christ-followers say, "God be with you" or "Peace be with you," they are speaking directly to something primal, addressing one another's fear with strong reminders of God's abiding presence.
01783 – We Have Forgotten God
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power, as no nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand...
01763 – What Does Our Framing Story Tell Us?
If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...