Safe keeping: Joanna Dales’s Thought for the week

‘We can practise now for the kingdom of peace.’

by Joanna Dales 29th September 2023

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives’ (John 14:27).

I used to think these words referred to an inner peace, transcending outward turbulence. I have come to see, however, that they may also refer to an outward peace, just one that is not ‘as the world gives’.