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John
14:17
This
is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees
him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in
you.
Knowing peace
To know has less to do with the mind that we normally expect. Knowing is a full body and soul experience,
an inner awareness that overrides everything else happening in our lives at the
moment, whether sadness, fear or this confounded isolation cutting us off from things
we want and the people we love.
The Spirit
of truth, an abiding presence, invites us to descend beneath the surface of
life where nothing feels right to that place where everything is right. The
Spirit draws us to that place within where you know as you are known … by a Knower,
a Presence who is Love, uncreated, real, there
... and totally undefinable.
This is
the Spirit of truth, a truth that is a Presence, a person, not a statement or
idea. To know this One, to feel this Presence for even a moment, stills our
anxieties and quiets the unruly waves that toss us about. In that moment, you know,
with body and soul, that this Love holds you, and there is nothing on
the surface of life that can ever change that.
Now and
forever, you are held in the all-encompassing Love that you know at the quiet
center of your soul, the center point where all the noise fades away and there is
just you and this Love you will never understand.
My peace I
leave you, Jesus said. Millions have known this peace, which is his presence
within them calming their fears and giving strength amid even the most
difficult circumstances.
This peace
passes all understanding, according to St. Paul. Of course it does. The busy
mind likes to understand, manage and control things. But peace comes only in
the presence of a Love no one can control.
Rest there and know.
Pr. David L. Miller
