I’ve got tell you about my God. This is what happens when sickness keeps me from my regular speaking about the greatness of my God. I type it and get it out this way. It is too great to keep inside and must come out some way or another.

My God, He is the Prince of Peace. He came to bring peace, not as the world gives. His peace is unexplainably different. It surpasses comprehension and makes little sense. It is outside of our realm or other worldly. Yet, He came to bring His peace to us in our world.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Luke 2:14 records the Christmas angels heralding peace and good will. The angels spoke of the coming of Jesus Christ into our world and of the good news and good will for the people of our world.

But we’ve been around the block enough times to know world peace isn’t here, nor is it just around the corner. Strife and struggles permeate our lives to the point of breaking us. Problems with families, neighbors, and war. Issues with health, wealth, and loved one’s death. Peace in this turmoil? How can it be? The world offers a peace that is absent of dissention, opposition and affliction. If one can catch a moment of the world’s peace, it is a rare and fleeting chance. Life is tough and full of rocky, hard places.

So how can God’s peace have been given but not realized? God has given us peace, but we must accept it, seek it and find it personally for ourselves. In order to realize this other-world kind of peace in the midst of life’s hardships, we must believe the good news of the glad tidings with an invincible faith. A faith that seeks Jesus with everything we have, giving ourselves over to the passion of finding more of Him in every moment of living breath. When we apprehend our Lord as truly ours, we attain the invincible faith that maintains the divine kind of peace no matter what our circumstances may be. This is the kind of faith the saints of old had when horrible tortures of lions, burnings, and atrocities took their lives as God’s peace kept their faith. The same faith and peace Cassie Bernall showed when facing a gunman in Colorado.

The world’s peace is a vapor, but God’s peace has staying power. It is ours for the seeking, ours for the having, ours for the sharing. That is the good news. God came to bring us peace, and we can own it. No one can take it away from us. Peace in my heart. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

My God rules!

Hello beautiful people. I wish you the greatest holydays.

I didn’t feel like celebrating the regular way this year. Things were different. Celebrating with decorations, cooking and eating didn’t appeal to me. Nor could I get into the buying, unwrapping and giving gifts. It was all different this year. It wasn’t because of sickness, although we were under the weather part of the time. It wasn’t because I didn’t have my family with me, I did. I felt different. I even thought it might be a lack of Christmas spirit, that the Ghost of Christmas past might visit me. Scrooge. No, I wasn’t anti-Christmas. Rather I felt less hustle and bustle and filled with more—I don’t know—thought maybe. Yeah, thoughts of the past, the present, and the future, like in Dickens’s Christmas Carol.

I celebrated by thinking of the joy and peace Jesus came to bring us in the midst of our pain and unrest. I celebrated Jesus being in the lives of family and friends, and cherished the thought of His presence in each one of you. I reminisced in my relations with each of you with gladness. And I had peace. All the trappings of this world can vanish like vapor and leave us with nothing before the throne of God, but by Jesus’ peace and joy, united and together we will be. We’ll have each other. I prayed for each one of you to experience the peace and joy that Christ offers all throughout the upcoming year. In Christ, we are victorious! May we see Him as He is.

Blessings upon you and your family,
Robin