February 27
Peace Where There Is No Peace by Risen Motherhood
“If you ask the internet how to get inner peace, it has much to say. Get plenty of sleep, it says. Do less each day. Practice non-judgment. Single-task; don’t multi-task. Not only is this kind of advice comically unhelpful in the face of motherhood, it fails to address the deepest problem, the real reason why we struggle to find inner peace in the first place.
The world believes that our problems are generally external. We need the rooms in our house to be clean and decluttered and to contain a large potted plant or a hanging terrarium. We need quiet. We need plenty of sleep and maybe a good detox smoothie. We need to remove toxic people from our lives. This is the recipe for peace.
But how can we get peace when there’s clutter because we’re in the middle of a morning of homeschooling? When there is so much noise? When we haven’t had a good night of sleep, and when our own children, and our own hearts, are producing much of the sin and conflict we deal with each day? How can we have peace when the world’s idea of peace is not available—the kind of peace that comes from clean, quiet, and absence of people who make life harder? How can we have peace when there is no peace?”
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus by Salt of the Sound
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free,
rolling as a mighty ocean
in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me,
is the current of thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward,
to thy glorious rest above.
