Dec.06.01: Light For The Day - "Love and Peace"  -- Proverb 6:7 (NIV) "When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD,  He makes even his enemies live at peace with him." ------------------ Do we really want peace the way God views peace?  Perhaps we need to rethink our idea of what "peace" really is.  God is always ready to give us true peace, if we are willing to ask Him for it. Will you end wars by asking men to trust men who evidently  cannot be trusted? No. Teach them to love and trust God;  then they will be able to love the men they cannot trust, and  will dare to make peace with them,  not trusting in them but in God.... Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for,  or "fight for." It is indeed "fighting for peace" that starts all the wars. ...  Peace is something you have or you do not have.  If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace. -- Thomas Merton (The True Solitude 1969) ------------------- -- John 14:27 (NIV) "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." -- John 16:33 (NIV) "I have told you these things,  so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart! I have overcome the world."