Peace Be With You

Peace be with you. This is what Christ wants to give - he wants to give us peace, love, grace. Many times we can think, what is God going to say to me? I’ve abandoned him, I’m afraid to come to him. Maybe this keeps us away from church, maybe this keeps us away from Confession. Can God truly forgive me? Does he truly want to give me peace? We know the answer to this in our head - we’ve been told over and over again that he loves us, but it can be hard to let that truth penetrate our heart sometimes. 

 

This is what God wants to give - He wants to say to each and every one of us - peace be with you. He wants to give us what we’re longing for, which is Him. We can receive this mercy over and over again, for God never tires of giving it. It’s only in God that we are going to find fulfillment and that we are going to find peace.

 

In his homily this past Sunday, Fr. Carlson speaks about God’s mercy, and tells a powerful story of one woman’s search for peace, and how she found it.