How to Find Gods Peace in the Quiet

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“I will have peace when…” I catch myself saying that, and sure enough, three things come off the list and three more go on. So today, dear friends, let’s take a breath. Silence is a space into which another voice may be heard. I think of Etty Hillesum, whose writings from the Holocaust show her wrestling with fear and refusing to give herself over to hatred. I think, too, of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his conviction that nonviolent resistance aims at reconciliation. What happens when we carry that quiet into a hard conversation, listen to someone we disagree with, and ask, “If we work together, what can we accomplish?”