“Peacefulness.” Peace is one of a number of key qualities of Spirit already prepared and available within us. Jesus spoke of a Peace inherently inside us. We are to activate this Peace by the expression of peacefulness in our acts and communications.

However, at the time Jesus walked the ancient Holy Land and drew crowds of people by the Sea of Galilee to hear his sermons, the Jewish community of people occupied by the Romans were anything but peaceful. As we know the scribes and pharisees mostly disliked Jesus and plotted to do him in.

Thus, what did Jesus do, the modern and prophetic preacher and spiritual healer of that day? He became more motivated. He determined to speak the Truth as God within him came clearly and profoundly through him. He was heard.

His words were electrically charged with Divine power filled with faith, love, spiritual direction, Truth and peace. He demonstrated the power of God through his healing miracles, materialized prosperity, acted with a generous spirit and loved as well as honored the Light of God in all people, albeit, challenging at times. 

Jesus was grace-filled and unperturbed by the chatter and voices of hatred and wrong doing against him. He walked in peace and told us to do the same regardless of the actions and contrary happenings around us. ‘Pray, go to your Father within then move your feet and go about your way with love and generosity of spirit.’

Through his lessons and sermons he demonstrated God’s light and will of absolute good and abundant Holy Power. He said the so called miracles Jesus did we were also capable of doing through the Father within! He spoke of the Spirit of Truth that lives in us as surely as the sun rises every day.

How can we honor Jesus teachings, his precepts and the living Truth he spoke and demonstrated to us through his ministry on Earth? His prime purpose was to show us, bring alive in us our holiness and Godly capabilities and Divine inherited qualities of God: Where, within us and ours to readily express and reveal to the world.

John Lennon in “Imagine” encapsulates the living peace of humanity—“Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can; No need for greed or hunger; a brotherhood (sisterhood) of (humankind); imagine all the people; sharing all the world…” 

In our moments and minutes of prayer, still times and meditations, let peace rise nestled in us individualized, waiting our attention and appreciation. We are so blessed with sweet and healing peace as our endearing Divine Inheritance, closer than our breath, Amen.