The Pilgrim Path---John 20:19 

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

Amy Carmichael / Part Two

Here we are at a watershed moment with regard to racial tensions in our nation. We want all people to be seen as image bearers of God. Then, the ongoing pressures of a world-wide pandemic. Add to this the mudslide of the economy. We're looking for peace aren't we? And lest you think COVID-19 is still the figment of quite a few folks imagination, these states hit new highs for hospitalized patients on Sunday: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

Only the Prince of Peace can actually bring us peace...some notes from Amy Carmichael (Missionary to India for 55 years / no furlough)

"Peace be with you"

Is it not always so? Does He not come just when He is needed most, and is not His first word always, Peace be unto you? "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." I wonder if He showed them His hands and His side, and His feet too, not only that they might recognize Him in their ill-lighted room, but that always on to the end they might remember this: I, Whom you follow, suffered; if you would follow Me you cannot avoid suffering; you must not be surprised at any suffering. "Think it not strange", "Count it all joy". More even than that (for His call all along had been to take up the cross and carry it), it seems to me that by His showing of hands and side and feet, He was impressing this great truth upon their minds: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it bringeth forth much fruit." "There is no life except by death." But first He said, "Peace be unto you."

IF I covet any place on earth but the dust at the foot of the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

IF I refuse to be a corn of wheat that falls into the ground and dies ("is separated from all in which it lived before"), then I know nothing of Calvary love.

IF I avoid being "ploughed under," with all that such ploughing entails of rough handling, isolation, uncongenial situations, strange tests, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ Our LORD, Pastor Jason