“’Be at peace.’ I was trying to discern my vocation, and that’s what the priest told me: ‘Be at peace.’
“How frustrating it can be to hear those words. When a million worries are running through our heads, the idea of not worrying seems both illogical and impossible. ‘Great,’ we say to ourselves, ‘now I’m worried about not worrying.’
“The difficulty of cultivating peace extends far beyond vocational discernment. It applies to everyone – to those who have checklists that never stop growing, to those who have children who never stop questioning, to those who wonder why God is permitting x, y, or z to occur at all, much less simultaneously. Yes, how nice it would be to be at peace, yet how hopeless the prospect often seems.”
In a recent commentary, Brother Mannes Matous, O.P., reflected on the peace the our Lord offers to us.
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