ADVENT WEEK TWO: PEACE
A reflection for a restless world
Peace is one of those words we love…but rarely feel.
Especially in December — when our pace picks up, expectations rise, and our hearts race ahead of our bodies.
And yet Advent calls us into something counter-cultural:
waiting.
Not passive waiting, but hopeful, anchored, attentive waiting.
This past Sunday we looked at Luke 2:22–38 — Simeon and Anna — two people who spent their lives waiting on the Lord. And Keith said something that lodged itself in my heart:
“Waiting, second only to suffering, is one of God’s greatest teachers.”
Waiting cultivates dependence.
Waiting unites us to Christ.
Waiting exposes where our peace is — and where it isn’t.
So the question becomes:
How do we wait well?
Peace in the Waiting
If I’m honest, waiting is not my spiritual strength.
Most of us don’t wait well — we rush, distract, numb, or fill every silence so we don’t have to feel the ache of uncertainty.
But Advent Week Two reminds us:
Peace isn’t found when the waiting ends.
Peace is found in who waits with us.
Peace is a Person.
Peace is Christ.
Peace is learning to steady ourselves on Him while life is still unfolding, unresolved, unsettled, unfinished.
And that’s where Dave Ramsey’s question ties in so beautifully:
“How do we solve for peace?”
Not someday in the future.
Not when every area of life organizes itself neatly.
But right now — in our actual circumstances, in the tension, in whatever we’re waiting on.
Solving for peace looks like asking:
What helps me depend on Christ instead of my own control?
What helps me slow down long enough to hear Him?
What rhythms actually nourish my soul?
Because peace isn’t passive.
It’s practiced.
A Practical Invitation for This Week
If you want to cultivate peace — real peace — here’s my gentle challenge for the next seven days:
Take 5–10 minutes each morning to be still before Christ.
No scrolling. No noise. No mental multitasking.
Social media is not mindless — it actually jerks your heart from one emotion to another in seconds. Our minds and bodies weren’t created for that kind of whiplash.
But sitting with Jesus?
That rewires us toward peace.
So this week, ask yourself:
How am I sitting in the waiting?
And what would it look like to solve for peace in my current season — not when life changes, but right here?
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