Loved the podcast with Chris and am excited to explore her substack page. 😊
This post and the advent reflections on peace so far have been so good. Wildly cosmic, but also more tangible than I’ve ever known the concept of God’s peace to be.
My whole life I’ve been terrified of conflict and always assumed peace would be the lack of it. God has been unraveling this for me recently tho.
If peace isn’t the lack of conflict, but the experience of God’s wholeness in us, what does it look like to be peacemakers? I was telling my therapist how as a little girl I took that beatitude as my personal job in life, and went about trying to keep everyone in my family from being in conflict with each other. I felt pretty self righteous in it, too, (although it did not at all produce peace in me.) But (as the best therapists so annoyingly do) she gently said she felt like my role as peacemaker was not about bringing peace to the family as much as it was about trying to help my little girl heart feel secure. She said security doesn’t equal lack of conflict.
So, I’m turning. Again and again, away from my goal of a conflict free life and toward his face. And his face never looks anxious. 🤍
God's wholeness ... oh my. I'll take that, Tim. To be filled with all of God - wow, mind blowing.
I'm thoroughly engaged in Oh Night Divine, Tim. It's been very special and distinctive so much of the other Advent material. Well done.
Thanks so much, Ian! It's been a joy for me to write and produce.
Loved the podcast with Chris and am excited to explore her substack page. 😊
This post and the advent reflections on peace so far have been so good. Wildly cosmic, but also more tangible than I’ve ever known the concept of God’s peace to be.
My whole life I’ve been terrified of conflict and always assumed peace would be the lack of it. God has been unraveling this for me recently tho.
If peace isn’t the lack of conflict, but the experience of God’s wholeness in us, what does it look like to be peacemakers? I was telling my therapist how as a little girl I took that beatitude as my personal job in life, and went about trying to keep everyone in my family from being in conflict with each other. I felt pretty self righteous in it, too, (although it did not at all produce peace in me.) But (as the best therapists so annoyingly do) she gently said she felt like my role as peacemaker was not about bringing peace to the family as much as it was about trying to help my little girl heart feel secure. She said security doesn’t equal lack of conflict.
So, I’m turning. Again and again, away from my goal of a conflict free life and toward his face. And his face never looks anxious. 🤍