Saturday is market day in Kaitaia and that’s where I talked to the owner of a stall who is advertising Yoga Classes and A Day of Yoga and Meditation here in Kaitaia.

And that is also where I came again across the phrase “peace of mind”. On the flyer I picked up there is written “Yoga and Meditation can help you to a more flexible body and greater peace of mind”.

This evening I am reading a book (A Shepherd looks at Psalm 23 by P. Keller) that is talking about people whose lives are permeated by a deep peace. And not only by a deep peace, but by a quiet peace and a settled peace. It says also that the peace in their lives is beautiful to behold.

Who are those people?

Are they rich? Are they poor?

That are those people who know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. The Lord Jesus Christ is their Lord, their Master, owner and manager!

The Lord Jesus Christ is their  Shepherd and they say, “I shall not be in want.”

Philippians 4:7

“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

The truth is incontrovertible,

malice may attack it,

ignorance may deride it,

but in the end; there it is.

Churchill

“I am grateful to the client who embroidered and framed for me the words, ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift and that’s why we call it the present.’ Living in the present is a challenge. Past experiences can come back to bite us and anxiety about the future can take away the joy and pleasure of living today.”

Anne Millar

“There is no experience from which you can’t learn something.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense. And the purpose of life after all is to take experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

Eleanor Roosevelt