Peace.

I have had a really hard time keeping my peace. I can easily get frustrated, and a lot of times I find myself on the brink of tears when I'm overwhelmed. So tonight when my Music Theory seemed to be in another language, and thoughts of everything else that I needed to do came flooding into my mind, I easily fell apart.
I was just reading John 14:27, and in it Jesus says, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid." As I was reading this verse only three minutes ago, I couldn't help but think of what a speaker I heard at a seminar say. She said, "Our inside world is like turbulent water, but when we spend time with God, it is calmed"
Remember when all of Jesus' disciples were in the boat crossing the water, and they got caught in a storm, with waves violently crashing over the boat? And through the whole time Jesus was sleeping, yet only to be woken up by his disciples asking Him if He cared whether or not they drowned. Jesus then wakes up, tells the wind to be quiet and still, and the storm seems to end in the blink of an eye. "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?", Jesus asks his disciples.


So its Wednesday night, my homework is taking much longer then I expected, and I have no idea whats going on in some of my classes. I think ahead to a busy Thursday and Friday filled with tests I'm uncertain about, and a weekend that leaves little time for rest. I don't really feel well, and I'm already thinking about trying to get out of school, even though I'm not that sick. It is in these moments that I easily brush aside the soft whisper, telling me not let my heart be troubled, and to not be afraid.
"Lizzy, peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid."

So may the peace of our Father calm the storms in your heart on this day.