Advent Peace

**Before you being reading, sit down, breathe normally and be quiet for one minute.**
    Peace often comes at a price. Peace costs something. It costs something to someone. Peace in a reconciled relationship involves humility, strength and other sacrifices. For some of us, peace has been a foreign concept (and maybe continues to be). Our lives have involved a lack of peace in relationships, in our home, with God. We often think of peace as the absence of strife and discord. Sometimes it really is the absence of those things but often it costs something.
    Peace is also supernatural and mysterious. Peace is a gift that God gives in the midst of strife and discord. In the beauty and wonder of God He gives us peace in chaos.
    Advent peace brings us to consider the peace that comes through Jesus. The peace that we consider this week involved humility and great sacrifice. It cost blood, it cost a life. It cost the life of the One whose birth is coming. Peace often comes at a price. This peace is also a beautiful and mysterious gift that is given by the One who came to make peace between us and God and between one another.
    Reflect on peace today and ask God for the gift of peace.

**Sit quietly again for as much time as is available to you.**