Guided Prayer - Seeds of PEACE

Beloved welcome.

Take a slow breath in and let it go Again.

Gently inhale and release and release.

One more deep, steady breath and exhale.

Beloved you are held in the love of God.

Beloved you are held in the love of God.

Your peace is not fragile, nor is it fleeting.

Your peace is anchored in the eternal, in the one who still blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

And again, when the winds raged and the seas roared, jesus stood and said peace, be still.

And the storm grew quiet.

Let these words of comfort flow into your heart like living water.

Beloved, you are called into this same peace, not only to receive it but to become it.

With your inhale, pray silently, peace of Christ fill me.

And with your exhale, pray, peace of Christ flow through me.

Inhale Peace of Christ fill me.

Exhale Peace of Christ flow, fill me.

Exhale.

Peace of Christ flow through me.

Continue this rhythm, breath and prayer woven together.

Every breath becomes a prayer and every prayer becomes a seed of peace Beloved.

To live the way of Jesus is to walk in this world as a peacemaker.

The saints and mystics have taught us peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God dwelling within us.

Now picture the peace of Christ as a gentle light within your chest, steady and unwavering.

The words of Jesus anchoring us in divine promise.

I leave the gift of peace with you, my peace, not the kind of fragile peace given by the world, but my own, perfect peace.

Don't yield to fear or be troubled in your hearts.

Instead be courageous.

Peace that does not flicker with fear.

Peace that does not flicker with fear.

Peace that does not vanish with anger.

True peace, anchored deep in the love of God.

Peace beneath every storm, beneath every shadow.

Let this peace expand now, filling your whole being with calm, with stillness and with love.

And now beloved.

Imagine this peace moving outward, beyond yourself, beyond these walls, flowing from you into your family, into your neighbors and into the whole earth, and into the whole earth.

See this peace embrace the weary, the brokenhearted, the forgotten.

See this peace soften the places of conflict and division.

You are not separate from any person In Christ.

We are one body, one spirit, one life in God.

Your peace is their peace.

Their peace is your peace.

Gently whisper with me.

Peace of Christ dwell in me.

Peace of Christ dwell in all.

Peace of Christ dwell in the world.

As the saints often prayed in silence, as the cloud of unknowing covered them in divine love.

Let this become a holy rhythm within your heart.

Peace of Christ dwell in me.

Peace of Christ dwell in all.

Peace of Christ dwell in the world.

Beloved, return now to your breath, slow, steady, calm.

Feel your body supported and your spirit at rest.

Hear again the blessing of our Jesus.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.

Carry this peace with you today, anchored in God, witness to the Spirit, a blessing for the world.

Go now, beloved child of God, bearer of peace, go in stillness, go in love, go in God.