Peace on earth

With the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season steadily winding down, may we take a little time to look back on those hurried days of shopping and preparations for those family gatherings to seek out and identify those moments of peace or quiet that we may have let slip by without giving them their due attention. The moments, or rather opportunities, to encounter the grace and peace of God when we most need it yet fail to avail ourselves of and instead,we almost instinctively retreat into the comfort of our busyness. And as we realize these moments, and mourn the loss of them, we pray for the wisdom to recognize them again and the courage to let go of our familiarity and embrace those moments as the gifts that they are. Let us cease the hurry and rush to find the true peace which our Father sets before his children. And in doing so may we become the instrument of peace to all our brothers and sisters that our God would use to reach them and bring them closer into himself.