“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” Jesus – John 14:27

Yesterday’s news was surreal. I don’t get live TV anymore but that didn’t stop news from leaking into my world. Cell phone, Computer, phone calls, Text’s, emails and opinions on top of opinions. The world is in a panic and there seems to be NO way to ACTUALLY determine what is REALLY going on with this COVED-19 virus thing. So, being it was St Patrick’s Day, we did the most logical thing. We made corned beef and cabbage!

Now most of the time I find it a WHOLE lot better to not focus on crazy. At my age I have seen a LOT of it! I remember, as a first grader, being assembled in the basement of our school and told to hunker down under the older kids standing above us as they stood against the wall. Somethin’ about bombs and such! Even then I couldn’t figure out the logic and felt sorry for those bigger than me who would supposedly die first.. then fall on ME! Not much has changed.

I told you I’ve seen a lot of stuff. And there re plenty of folks around WAY older than me you can spend time with, who can top MY stories. But I guess I have seen enough to learn NOT be scared of crazy talk! Getting through it, I have learned that often it isn’t what you DON’T know.. as much as it’s about what ya DO! And the #1 top thing I KNOW….Is Jesus Christ!

I LOVE this Bible quote from John. Jesus personally pulled his disciples aside and gave them an alien package. Something they had never even HEARD of before. Like NOTHING out of this world…He gave them Himself. “His Peace,” He called it. He told them that there was noting to compare it to on Earth. And then gave them 2 big no-no’s to go along with it. He said, If I have HIS Peace, I’m NOT to allow myself to be ‘troubled’ or ‘afraid!’ He says ‘I’m’ supposed to regulate those things!

I was thumbing through one of my old Bibles and came across this little poem I wrote years ago. I don’t remember the occasion, but whatever it was, God had made an impression upon me! Enough to write something down to keep. Maybe it might help YOU right now.

When obstacles and trials seem

like prison walls to me.

I do the little that I can

and leave the rest to thee.

And when there seems no change, no chance

that fear will set me free.

Hope finds your strength in my helplessness

and calmly waits for thee!

Do YOU know His Peace?