Embracing Peace: Acceptance and God's Love

"Peace is the rest of will that results from Assurance about how things will turn out. It is always a form of active engagement with the good plus assurance that things will turn out well. The dead are often spoken of as at peace but they are not at peace unless they're actually alive and doing well. You just say stuff that makes me chuckle sometimes I am at peace about it we say and this means I'm no longer striving inwardly or outwardly to save some outcome dear to me or to avoid one that I reject." [00:02:27]

"Most people carry heavy burdens of care usually about the things that are most important in life what will happen to their loved ones, their finances, Health, death, their physical appearances, or what others think of them, the future of society, they're standing before God and their Eternal Destiny that's quite a list to be at peace with God and others, Family labors co-workers is a great attainment and depends on graes Far Beyond ourselves as well as on our own efforts that is also true with being at peace with." [00:03:44]

"Thanks it's such a funny word in some ways because I think there are the layers that we hear if we grow up in the church or if you're around long enough you hear about um you know I'm part of a liturgical church and so every Sunday we we pass the peace to one another um and a lot of people hate that and I just might you too sometimes cuz it feels a little awkward and do you say hello just to the people that you know or do you greet the people that you don't know and are new and in Co it's even weirder." [00:04:37]

"There are layers to this that go um so deep and I think the more that we attribute this to effort Alone um the more isolating it is when I have felt in the past like I cannot create peace in my life and I felt like I have let God down uh when I have not been at peace and I think the place in the last few years um that Dallas talks about and then there's a bit that I'll share in a second that um Stanley Hower was talked about years ago in if that I love but when Dallas talks about peace comes from the acceptance of God's gift for us in his son." [00:06:04]

"There is a beauty to acceptance that I think can lead to peace because at its deepest when we start to accept what is true we start to realize that uh we cannot control it and so I think of um you know a situation with a friend um who recently lost someone that he really loved and this friend of mine is in pain and hurting and I've been the person in pain and hurting and um you can't reverse death and it's very hard to immediately be at peace um with death but if I can start to work to accept this is what happened I cannot change it." [00:06:51]

"I can live with it and in it and it's okay to feel all the emotions I'm feeling then a strange sort of piece starts to come into my body and so it's accepting those circumstances and then it's also accepting the emotions that we have I think um it's easy when you've grown up in the faith to feel like there are good emotions and there are bad emotions and um only certain of them lead to peace and so therefore the other ones I know I felt when I felt anxious I should reject and push them away or resist them push them away resist them get rid of them not talk about them." [00:07:39]

"Stanley hows mentioned in this interview years ago he was talking about peace in terms of pacifism and he said that he is a pacifist precisely because is a violent person and he knows his capacity for violence I don't think that means Stanley horos is going to go and punch people but you I mean you never know no you don't I've never been in his classes but um he talked about there's a vulnerability that you have to have before you can be at peace and I think that through line is what connects world peace and peace on a global scale what connects interpersonal peace and what connects to deep personal peace." [00:08:21]

"If somebody's watching this and uh it's even hard for them to hear the word peace cuz they feel like they're anxious worried and then feel guilty I must not have enough faith I must not trust God uh before we sign off what would you say to the person that struggles with peace I'm thinking now of um a little while ago I was talking with my therapist and she and I were talking about something I was doing and I was saying I just don't know if this is right if this is God's will for me what should I do and she kind of laughed at me which is actually helpful and she said maybe it's not maybe you just don't know and that's okay and you have to trust that." [00:09:00]

"God is going to be able to make things right and so that's not to say it's so easy but to say um I find that when I'm not at peace and I think this is true for a lot of people there's an inner obsession over what we should do, how peace should look how it does look when I look at someone else on the outside and I would say um it's almost never true almost everyone has some deep pain that they're not sharing that you may not see um and that maybe God is not as concerned that we get it right as he is with us receiving his love so the word for today is peace and as you go through your day um when fear and worry come don't push them away." [00:09:46]

"Don't uh try to resist them by willpower acknowledge them welcome Rick Blackman talks about welcoming one of his clients named anxiety Wilma welcome Wilma uh and invite peace or thank you very much for doing us would you do this again I would do this again thank you thanks friends be at peace hey if you enjoyed that video be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any future episodes from John orberg or become new you can also head to our website becom new.com where we have a bunch more resources you might be interested in like free downloads books and a library of videos for you to explore learning how to grow spiritually one day at a time." [00:10:25]