Peace Beyond Our Understanding
Dear Friends, The theme for our Sunday morning services at church this month is “Peace” and I’ve been thinking a lot about it this week. Jesus said in John 14:27 “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” (NLT) The problem is we do worry, become anxious and concerned and this can rob us of our peace. I think I was born a worrier, as a child I worried about all manner of things, small and big, I even worried about worrying so much! Worrying is not productive and it’s not helpful, it can make us physically ill. I’ve suffered with digestive problems and headaches as a result of worrying. We can worry about the future and what might happen, but often what we worried would happen does not occur or is nowhere near as bad as we had imagined. These are all reasons why Jesus commanded us not to worry. “Therefore I say to you, do...