We need more peace

We are living in a very unpeaceful world, I'd say. Too much anger out there, and sometimes it is mine. Thing is, peace is so much better than un-peace. That is what we need to know.

I brought a sermon recently on The Joy of Forgiveness. That topic came to me via a church bulletin I get from a friend. The meat of the topic was the great danger one does to their mental and physical bodies by not practicing more forgiveness. And, of course, being a church bulletin, it talks about the necessity of forgiveness as a follower of God, the great forgiver.

This is not to say that some things do not need correcting by offenders. They do. But our growing in hate and frustration does not solve anything. It only makes us feel bad. It might be that we cannot do anything about the offender, but we CAN do something about how we think about it, and that is where it gets into The Joy of Forgiveness.

We could name so many things that happen personally where this lesson is needed. The reader can likely reflect on his or her life and list a bunch, too.

The message is we can feel a lot better, we can enjoy life a lot more, we can live at peace a lot better by being more forgiving. We can actually enjoy life more if we would stop hating offenders so much. Who knows, if we acted better, and were more forgiving, the offenders might learn something. They might want to live like us. Who would want to live like us if we constantly are in turmoil? Makes sense to me.

So....we do need more peace in our lives. Husband to wife, wife to husband, brother to sister, and vice a versa, friend to friend, and fellow man to fellow man. All kinds of relationships exist where this can be applied. And we don't want to forget employee to employer, to think of one more.

Want peace? Work at being more forgiving! Yes, that works.