{"id":2049,"date":"2014-05-17T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/peace-sweet-peace-priceless\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:00:05","slug":"peace-sweet-peace-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Sweet Peace — Priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is possible to have peace when storms are raging around us. I know, because I’ve experienced that peace. When “they” say “no more hope”, there’s the temptation to retreat, and to run for the storm shelter. We were no storm chasers, but we did know how to outwit the storm. This is the day we were told “no more hope, call in Hospice”. <\/p>\n

My husband\u2019s name, Ronald, means \u201cmighty wise ruler\u201d. He lived up to that title as he was always in some form of leadership \u2013 guiding and directing business and ministry endeavors. Though we never expected our faith journey to lead us to that day, we still had the confidence that we were in a place of divine destiny. Our all-knowing, all-seeing God, knew we would be there, and He prepared us by giving us so much peace for the journey. Two verses of scripture resonated within me. \u201cIN EVERYTHING (even this experience), give thanks for this is the will of God concerning you.\u201d (I Thessalonians 5:18) Everything — means everything \u2013 IN this experience — to give Him thanks. And the second scripture was St. Paul\u2019s words, \u201cwhatever state I\u2019m in, to be content.\u201d (Philippians 4:11).<\/p>\n

That morning,a dear friend brought communion to us. How sweet was the presence of our Lord as we remembered what He did for us on Calvary. And as we thanked God for His love to us, I looked at my sweetheart, lying in his hospital bed, unable to move his legs or sit up beyond a 30 degree angle \u2013 yet so at peace, so at rest in this \u201cstate\u201d that he was in. <\/p>\n

Then, that visual gave way to a whole new perspective. I thought about a king \u2013 how he sits on his throne and everyone, and everything, is at his beckoned command \u2013 he is fed, dressed, and given whatever he desires. I started picturing that hospital bed as a throne. Yes! That\u2019s it! My Ronald \u2013 my mighty, wise ruler\u2026is on his throne, being ministered to as any other king would be \u2013 his food is brought to him, he is fed, he is dressed, he is massaged, he is loved, respected and admired. Everyone wants to please and serve him. And his responsibilities were to be at peace, and listening to His King\u2019s voice, and to pass on to us, his subjects, the wisdom of God that he heard, and I can’t begin to tell you the wisdom that poured from him to us during those days. From the beginning of that faith journey, we heard the words “Be still and know that I am God”. There we were — my king was on his throne, and I was making every effort to be like “Mary” who sat at the feet of Jesus, instead of hustling and bustling like Martha did. There are no adequate words to explain the peace we were in. <\/p>\n

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Yes, we received the “hope-less” medical prognosis, but it didn’t matter, we never wavered from the spot of believing for a miracle! At any given time, I wouldn’t have been at all surprised if my Honey had gotten off his throne, fully healed, restored and saying, \u201cHow about going for a walk?\u201d And as I read these words from my blog to him, he smiled at me and gave me a king\u2019s \u201cthumbs up\u201d! <\/p>\n

And, that, and this, my friends, is the way we experienced peace then, and that’s how I continue to be in that peace today. “Him I will keep in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on ME.” Isaiah 26:3.
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It is possible to have peace when storms are raging around us. I know, because I’ve experienced that peace. When “they” say “no more hope”, there’s the temptation to retreat, and to run for the storm shelter. We were no storm chasers, but we did know how to outwit the storm. This is the day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12019,839,7148,12020,12021,5359,44,351,2380,12022,12023],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-everything","tag-give-thanks","tag-hospice","tag-i-thessalonians-518","tag-king","tag-leadership","tag-peace","tag-philippians-411","tag-priceless","tag-ruler","tag-throne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}