Holy Spirit of God, help me be a peace-maker, just like You …

 
Matthew 5:1-12

 
As human beings, we are designed to be ‘just like Abba, Father’, the Creator of all that is peace-full.  Jesus tells us in the Beatitudes that it is those of us who are the makers of peace who will be called the ‘children of God’.  Sometimes I notice that God brings about  or ‘makes’ , peace, by bringing the pieces in my life together.  And sometimes, he first breaks things that are not ‘right’, not ‘just’ into pieces in order to put them together in a new way.  It is God who brings about true peace, that is the extraordinary peace that Jesus left with his disciples between his resurrection and subsequent ascension into heaven. To truly incorporate Jesus’ peace, I need to turn away from the wide road of destruction and people-pleasing to ‘enter by the narrow gate’ and walk the path of life, no matter how hard it is. Going along a walking path peacefully, for example, is to open my whole being to the uqqaq , the ‘tongues’, the leaves of the trees and other plants without hurry and preoccupation.  As I clean and cook, rotate and repair around my house peacefully, I lean into the cleanliness  and purpose of things without indifference and resentment.  In my interactions with others, if I am making peace, I will turn aside from coercion, control, criticism and judgment and live into any one of a million ways to love the man, woman or child in front of me, and celebrate their being.  As thoughts and words and actions come and go in my daily life, if I am embracing my identity as a peacemaker, I will quash ideas, conversations and actions that are violent, and live into thoughts that are praiseworthy and lovely, conversations that are darkness-defying and actions that are live-giving. Today, how will I, like God, be a maker of peace? Holy Spirit of God, help me be a peacemaker just like You.    
                                                                                                                   
Lord Almighty, how happy are those who trust in you!   (Psalm 84:12 )
 
If you give food to the hungry, and satisfy those who are in need, then the darkness around you will turn to the brightness of noon.  And I will always guide you and satisfy you with good things.  I will keep you strong and well… You will be known as the people who rebuilt the walls and restored the ruined houses.  The writer of Isaiah 54:9-12
 
See aFirst Nations Chief who is calling Canadians  to be peacemakers :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wstQUMi8kYo
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