gaining peace in life

​Hello everyone, I hope all is well.  Today, I’m going to piggyback on what I mentioned yesterday about being a vessel and how that benefit us to gain peace.  I think we all want peace but there’s a sacrifice to pay to get peace.  It doesn’t come just like that because we all go through good and bad times on our journey.  Life comes with a package and we as people have to know how to deal with what’s in the package in order to gain peace and have joy.
 
The package that we carry contains things like stress, pain, trials, love, forgiveness, patience and so much more.  Once we know how to deal with what’s in the package, we can gain peace.  We must know that PEACE ONLY COMES FROM GOD.  We can’t get it from anyone else and if we think we can, we’re in denial.  God is love and the way to have peace is to love through every situation.  If you think about it, if we love, we don’t expect anything from anyone and we are just sharing God’s unconditional love as well as His grace and mercy. 
 
When we deal with stress, think about God and His love, if we deal with pain, think about how Jesus died on the cross so that we may live and if we think about forgiveness, think about how God forgives us for our wrongdoing all the time. I can go on and on and on and when we take a step back and think about these things with patience, we will learn to TRUST GOD and share His goodness. 
 
As you can see, there are sacrifices on our journey but when we practice some of those important virtues, we will know how to deal with life on a daily basis.  Again, a peaceful life does not just happen, it’s built daily with love, sacrifice, patience, grace and forgiveness.  Once we know that, PEACE WILL COME ONE DAY AT A TIME.
 
AMEN AND THANK YOU LORD