PEACE -- FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

PEACE – A FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

BY DR. MERVYN ABREO

Peace in the most unexpected of all places!

                                                          

 

                                    

          There was a world competition for painters and the theme was ‘peace.’ Hundreds of scenes were painted: an old couple sitting on the banks of a river, birds gliding through the air, a pond in the middle of a garden, the sun setting over the mountains, etc.

                   But the first prize went to the painter who had painted a storm!

                                                                

         

                  It was a violently raging storm, with the wind lashing with all its might, rain cascading down in torrents, lightening striking ominously and the trees shaken to their very roots.

                                                           

                    But at the center of the storm was a tree, and in the lee of its two branches was a nest in which a mother bird and her little chicks were sitting peacefully.
                 This was a perfect depiction of peace in the midst of a storm.

                                                                 

                   As Jesus has said: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.” (John 14:27).

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