Many of us search for and desire it,  but for most of us, its presence is far away.   When it does find us, we feel at ease, we feel calm, we sense joy, and we relish every moment.  The only trouble is, when it finds us, it seems that it does not stay long. There is always some situation, some person,  some deadline,  some urgent matter…. some THING,  lurking on the outskirts of our lives waiting to steal it away from us.   And once it’s gone, we feel abandoned,  neglected,  FORGOTTEN, and we wonder, why it doesn’t stay? Why must we face so much of life without its presence?

This “Presence” I speak of is PEACE.   Many of us spend most of our lives,  hoping to get through this or that moment in life in order to get back to peace, balance, equilibrium.  In…