"Peace be with you"
- RUTH BURROWS
"My peace is based on absolute reality that is total, accepting Love."
"You must be with me where I am, in the Father, in his beautiful, ineffable world. This is where you belong now; having got there myself I come to take you with me. My going is my coming — my Resurrection. I am here with you to the end of time. You can choose to live in a world where the prince of darkness rules, or live in the world of my Father. Choose to live in the Father's world with me or live in the world which knows him not."
Mostly we prevaricate. In some ways, at some times, we are living in the Father's world, the world of the Risen Jesus; at other times we live in the world of non-faith. We do not really believe that Jesus is Risen. We give intellectual and verbal consent to the fact, but we do not live every moment of our lives in accordance with that truth. We judge things from a merely human standpoint, as they strike the senses and our human estimation. We fail to hold everything against the bright backdrop of faith. Instead we allow our emotions to dictate to us what is real and what is not. Far too easily we give way to our moods, our fears, our uneasy feelings.
"Set your troubled hearts at rest, banish your fears. Do you love me? Then what do your ups and downs matter? I am Risen and with my Father, all is unutterably well, and well forever.... Choose. Live with me in the sunshine world of my Father or opt to live in your own subjective estimation of reality."
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Acknowledgement
Ruth Burrows. "Peace be with you." from Through Him, With Him, in Him: Meditations on the Liturgical Seasons (London, UK: Sheed & Ward Ltd., 1987).
Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Author
Sister Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite nun at Quidenham in Norfolk, England. She is author of Guidelines for Mystical Prayer, Essence of Prayer, and To Believe in Jesus.