A prayer for a calm heart and home by Arlene Pelican.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called Children of God.

Matthew 5-9.

Each home will have its own level of neatness to aspire to, but there is something that

everyone can agree upon as ideal, living in a calm, peaceful

home.

What is the atmosphere of your home on most days?

Could you describe it as a place of refuge or is it more chaotic or stressful?

There's the visible calm of a clean orderly home and there's also the invisible

calm of a welcoming loving environment.

What if you've had a lousy day or week or month?

I know I've had bad mornings and still managed to smile at a room full of strangers in a meeting.

Somehow we can put negative feelings behind us and act civilly, even warmly, to acquaintances and coworkers. Yet our families and closest friends

can get the emotional scraps of the day.

The Bible says it exactly this way twice.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a coralsome wife,

Proverbs 219 and Proverbs 25, 24. The writer of this Proverb would rather live in an

awful spot unsuitable for cold or rain than in a comfortable house with a

sour scolding woman. No external

conveniences can replace the desire and need for internal peace. Do you realize

the power you have to create a calm environment?

You can invite the Holy Spirit into your life today

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