love, war, and peace.
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love, war, and peace.
As peaceMAKERS we are on the front lines. We bear the primary thrashing and flailing. We witness the messy and murderous clash of flesh against flesh.
Three years into my mothering journey, I'm realizing that the call to parenthood is a deeply intimate expression of our call as believers: we are called to be peaceMAKERS.
A peaceMAKER is one who enters a space or situation that is naturally not peaceful. It is engaging with (or going into) turbulence ON PURPOSE with the goal of bringing, ushering, encouraging, creating, or facilitating peace.
Peace with God...
Peace with toddlers...
Peace with the one I am married to...
Peace in my home and heart...
Peace with the driver in front of me sitting through a green light looking down at their phone...
It is a hard and humbling calling.
As peaceMAKERS we are on the front lines. We bear the primary thrashing and flailing. We witness the messy and murderous clash of flesh against flesh. Our love will be asked to stretch taut to cover a multitude of scars and lashings out, anger and threats, defiance, tantrums, and even brutality. Sarcasm and indifference. Immaturity and injustice.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
Peacemakers: sons of God.
It's hard to come alongside someone who is testing the limits of your patience and love, knowing YOU are the one called to make peace. Yet out of all things, being a peacemaker is the only one Christ wove into a tender correlation with our heavenly Father and our position as His child.
Our Father, who gave His only begotten Son, to make peace with me and you....and then to continuously pour out His peace so we can drink deep from this blessed river.
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As always, the necessary and unfortunate disclaimer: this is not advocating DV or minimizing abuse or tolerating inappropriate behavior in any form. If you or someone you love is experiencing such, please get help!