Chase Peace

It is weird to be calm in the midst of a storm. It can make one feel somewhat crazy or seem to be in-denial. To see all the rocks and road spiralling around crashing into one another. To feel the wind rip and tear as though a monster. To be calm when the whole world is screaming war is to be truly at peace. 

It looks so strange to see the battle coming and then simply sit down. See it and say well looks to be the time for a lie down. The battle is raging and yet the eye of the storm never ceases to leave the place where peace has surpassed all understanding. 


Peace, it has no form, no taste, no smell. And yet peace is more valuable than gold. It can not be held in the palm of a hand and can not be taken away forcibly. It can be given away, however why that would ever be willingly done seems absurd. 


Someone once said something to the effect that, if you are without peace how can you rest. It is a good question indeed, how can one rest, sleep, without peace. What is one to do without peace. Lack of peace leads to war indeed, but simple troubles as well. 


Chaos does not require an absences of peace, however one will create greater tragedy. Without peace reason ceases to have much hold and without reason times become more storm like by the minute. But, if one can look at the storm and sit down and trust, one will be okay. 


Go chase peace. Not a life without any trouble at all, but true peace. The kind that makes it okay to sit in the storm. The kind that makes it okay to walk into the war and come out the other end untouched. Go find what brings peace and walk away from what tries to steal that peace. It isn’t worth it if it steals peace. 


Chasing peace is a worthy cause. A cause one could run after all life long and not tire of. It is so very worth it to have peace and to chase it if one finds themselves without. Peace, more valuable than gold and of greater worth than most things of this world. 

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