Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me be at peace with everyone…

Hebrews 12:4-15

 
In a dog-eat-dog world, being at peace, particularly with everyone, is a liability and a sign of weakness. But we are not animals. We are human beings with the power to put our choices into effect.  It makes sense to be at peace with everyone, including my inner self,  but when I am being pushed and pulled by the forces of relationships and day to day occupations  and pressures it is easy to defer to my own biases and perceptions and to retort with an acrid answer or passively apply aggressive pressure for others to comply with my ideologies. I need to learn that being at peace with my children, a spouse, co-workers and friends is worth more than me being ‘right’, and having all tasks being completed to my satisfaction. Being at peace with others does not mean I acquiesce to everyone’s agendas. Far from it.  Indeed, being at peace with others is being who I am, and saying and doing what I am meant to do, while interacting in a peaceful, albeit truthful, way with everyone along my path.  Will I snarl and growl my way through the day today, or choose to be at peace with everyone?  Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me be at peace with everyone.   
 
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that whatever is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.    (Hebrews 12:12)
 
Wherever God has put you that is your vocation. It is not what we do, but how much love we put into it.
Saint Mother Teresa of Kalcutta       
 
Soli ad gloriam
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