I feel like peace feels like a really warm blanket on a cold day.

To me, God's peace feels like calm in the middle of a storm.

Rock at the beach, the waves are heating it, but the rock doesn't care.

The piece of God feels like an exhale after holding in my breath for multiple weeks.

Hmm. Well, what about you? Can you experience a sense of peace and calm in your life?

Or does everything feel just a little bit too chaotic?

On today's focus on the family with Jim Daly, we'll be exploring how you can pursue

peace and other important fruit of the spirit.

I'm John Fuller, thanks for joining us today.

John, whenever I think of the word peace, I think of our good friend Ray Vandernellon, who is a Bible teacher

and scholar of Jewish history, and one of the great nuggets I've gotten from Ray is this concept of God Shalom to combat the world's chaos. Shalom is the Hebrew word for peace, God's peace, and it describes that deep

redemptive peace between us and God because of the sacrifice Jesus made for us on the cross and our acceptance of him as God's son.

That should bring you great peace.

But it can be difficult to bring God's peace to others if we aren't experiencing that for ourselves.

And that's where peace has to start.

It has to start within our own hearts.

The Book of Psalms has many references to peace where we're told to actively seek it and pursue it.

And our guest today, Kay Weymah, has experienced this very thing. She's a busy wife and a mom of five,

and all the ladies went, what?

But she wants to challenge all of us

to pursue peace through a special project that she's developed.

Yeah, and Kay is a good friend who's been with us before.

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