When Peace Fills the Room

36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.

44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

(Luke 24)

When Peace fills the room, silence is okay, not awkward.  Peace almost shouts in fear, excitement, and childlike questioning.   Peace makes our senses more alive: we see, hear, and even think more clearly.  Peace filling the room (or our lives) does not mean that things are surreal - that it is above or outside daily the things of daily life, but that daily life is transformed, because we know that all is well, as it should be, under control, because Christ is here with us.  May there be peace in the room, in our lives today, because He is here, we know it, and that affects how we do life.