Peace

 

Peace is not something to wish, or even to hope for. 

It is not a sentiment to wear on one’s sleeve or to stick in an envelope and mail as a Christmas card. 

It is not a virtue to be signaled. 

Peace is a decision. 

A solitary decision.

Others might favor dissension over a chosen peace.

So be it.

We choose peace anyway, and forgo the "useless wranglings" of people of "corrupt minds" who are "obsessed with disputes and arguments" and have an "unhealthy interest in controversies" (1 Timothy 6:3-5).

Talk such as this, "avoid" (2 Timothy 3:5b); "flee from these things" (1 Timothy 6:11a).

Choose peace; no one is stopping us.

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives." John 14:27a 

Copyright Barb Harwood