My Daily Take on Peace

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ⁵ Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Peace to the soul is possible.  I imagine that you must think that peace is a feeling, a rest, a symptom free feeling that you get when you...  adhere to what Philippians 4:6 states.  First it says not to be anxious about anything and I constantly fail at this and then there is that great little preposition in which Paul includes "BUT".  "BUT in every situation by prayer and petition", to me says that he is already aware that I don't know how to do this on my own  meaning that he gives me a way to not be anxious and to say "this is BIGGER than who I am DADDY and I submit to you and I will stop and be still in who you are." Then I receive his perfect peace.  I am not speaking about temporary peace I am meaning peace of the soul, being able to know without a doubt his presence and focus on the truth and allowing him to do the next thing...wash the next dish, change the next diaper or spank the next bottom.  I may be shaking and in fact sometimes still crying but somehow he takes over.  We are all his.  Everything here is his.  Nothing is ours.  Temporal problems seem so traumatic at the point when which they are occurring.  But I find peace in just surrendering,  for example recently we have faced what some would call MAJOR financial turmoil.  Each new thing that pops up is causing us to pay a fee or have an even bigger consequence.  After my silly crazy emotional meltdown I then begin to almost snicker, it's almost as if the Holy Spirit knocks me over the head with laughter and I am able to say" Father this is all yours and if this is the way you want to spend you money then I will submit, even though it looks radical to me I don't know anything and everything I do know is only given to me through wisdom that you have allowed me to receive".  Shew... after that the pressure is all off of me and given back to him.  Though to him it's no pressure, it's just doing what he does best...being God.