Peace: pursue peace

Harmony with self and God: 

  • Be still and breathe, just breathe - Psalm 46:10

  • Pray: exchange wishes with God and with and for others - Matt 6:9; Phil 4:4-8

  • Reflect on what is good - Phil 4:8

  • Rest in that goodness - Matt 11:29; Ps 116:7

  • Go outside, move about, exercise your body, accomplish a task - find some satisfaction - Psalm 23; Rom 1:20; Ps 19:1

Harmony with Others: 

  • Pray for them - James 5:16

  • Write a note - 1Peter 5:12; 1Cor 16:21; Gal 6:11

  • Contact them to say “hi”, encourage, laugh, and, if necessary, cry - Rom 12:15; Job 2:11; Ecc 3:4

  • Bless them - true and sincere well wishing, happiness, and goodness - Rom 12:14; 1Pet 3:9

  • Share with them - anything good - good news, good things, good stories, good jokes, good prayer requests, good answers to prayers… Romans 12:9-13

  • Where necessary, forgive - forgive them… and allow yourself to be forgiven  - Matt 6:12

Seek peace and pursue, run after it, grab it, secure it and practice it - give yourself permission to realize and experience the peace of God, with God, that He has already made for with you, in you, for you - peace = friendship with God - John 15:15; Prov 22:11; 17:17