Comments on: Peace and Contentment

by: Mary A

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:46:02 +0000

Thanks for that quote, RoAnn. One wonders how to have peace in this day and age, but Elder Packer points the way. There are things we have to live with, but our attitude toward them and toward life in general can make all the difference.

by: RoAnn

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:27:04 +0000

While reading your post, Mary, I thought of a passage from President Packer’s October General Conference address:

We are not to be afraid, even in a world where the hostilities will never end. The war of opposition that was prophesied in the revelations continues today. We are to be happy and positive. We are not to be afraid. Fear is the opposite of faith. (A Defence and a Refuge)

Your post helps us see the relationship between faith and the peace we need to strive on in a world increasingly trying to attain “peace” in ways that don’t really work.

by: Mary A

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:12:28 +0000

Thank you for your comments, Naiah and Serenity Valley. As I wrote this, I, too, was struck by how peace, which we usually think of as a passive state, often comes from action as we follow Christ.

by: Serenity Valley

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:58:49 +0000

Thank you for writing this - it’s a beautiful reminder of a basic fact I tend to forget.

by: Naiah

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:22:22 +0000

I love that phrase, “the bond of charity.” When our hearts are drawn out in that full love, we *are* bound to all around us, but it is a willing bond. When we love them, we care, and when we care, we act! When we act thus motivated there is a peace of conscience that comes.

We usually associate peace with stillness and tranquility, quietness and contemplation, but there is a peace to Christlike action, as well.

Thanks, Mary!