And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Such is the message that was drummed into me as the son of a vicar in South London (Streatham) in the 1960's). The principle is still relevant today. The implication of the above is that It is not so much the knowledge of God or even the words of God through Jesus, but the peace of God....
The most profound peace of mind is when you are in an environment where your body's foibles and imperfections are left behind, in other words in the state that we would call heaven. There is a homophone to peace and that is 'piece'. When we say we're going to 'give someone a piece of our mind' you mean we are going to say in no uncertain terms what we think of them. It's funny that we talk about...
Most times it is worth making a complaint. However, at a Hotel I stayed at in Dorset the proprietor to this bed and breakfast establishment was clearly not interested in her guests. She made the mistake of placing two couples who did not know each other at a rather small table slightly larger than a whist table. We arrived at the same time as the other couple and both gasped at this lack of...
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