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PROGRAM D-7780
I wonder how your peace quotient is today? Lots of peace in your heart and life—or too much worry and anxiety and fear? In the third chapter of 1 Peter we read that the person who intends to love life and see good days must seek peace and pursue it. You have to go for it.
Probably the best testimony you and I can have is to demonstrate peace in the midst of a hectic environment. I have a dear friend who came to know Christ as her Savior because she kept observing one coworker who was peaceful in a chaotic work situation, and she decided she wanted what he had. She wanted peace.
That’s why I think the theme for our Weekend Getaway this April is so right—Unshakable Peace. When you have it and you live it, you not only bring calm and contentment to your own life, but you shed the peace of Christ to those around you. You become a light in a dark world—in a world longing for personal peace.
One person wrote this after attending last year’s weekend getaway:
“God brought me to the conference after being unemployed for a year. I just got a new job last month, and I am trying to be a light at this new company. I met wonderful people, great ladies in the faith, with great stories of faith. God in his infinite wisdom and perfect timing is amazing.”
It’s testimonies like this that convince me God uses these weekend getaways to do amazing things in the hearts of those who attend.