One of my favorite authors and poets is David Whyte. In his book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (Many Rivers Press, 2014), Whyte writes in his chapter on "Besieged" that the "great discipline seems to be the ability to make an identity that can live in the midst of everything without being beset."
How can we know the peace of God that passes all understanding no matter what is going on around us--or even within us? Discipline, in Whyte's phrase seems apt to describe building the capacity to be able to remain in the middle of everything without coming undone. Additionally, withdrawing from time to time for prayer and retreat, to recenter, reground, regroup, recharge, realign, following the example of Jesus Christ our Savior, our model in all things, is also part of developing that capacity.
I wish you peace in the midst of whatever may be around you or within you or whatever you may in these days be passing through. Christ is walking alongside you and is within you just as surely as he was walking with the disciples from Jerusalem to Emmaus.
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