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You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3 “Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!” For my brothers and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!” For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. Psalm 122: 7-9 Long standing tradition designates this second Sunday of Advent as peace Sunday. Last week I invited a look at how the world is shrouded in spiritual and moral dark

After seasons of warmth, the growing season, the harvest and the beauty that is autumn (in which I relished for an extended season from Quebec to home feasting on the colors and refreshing cool) we enter winter with its attendant palpable gloomy gray days. It’s a time when we begin to long for the better seasons. But this season offers a needed quiet, a respite from labors. Freed from many daily outdoor chores and activities. It is a time to nourish our interior life, our spi

This psalm reveals God’s judgment of the wicked as opposed to the outcome of those who remain pure in heart and continue to seek God. The writer (presumably David) may have been thinking about doing something that God had forbidden, for in verse 2 he says, “But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold”. The writer had looked around and noticed that some people seemed to “have it all” with no apparent problems, great prosperity and good health. He