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boundaries with our technology, practicing mindfulness, cultivating gratitude, and seeking moments of stillness amid the chaos. It means intentionally choosing to focus on the good, the true, and the beautiful in our lives. It means trusting that even when life is noisy and chaotic, there is a deeper peace available to us.
but suffice it to say that he brought so much disturbance to the peace that he was executed. By not keeping the peace, going along to get along, or submitting to the pressure to not make a stir, he made peace possible.
Adapted from Joy Bomb by Tauren Wells. Copyright Tauren Wells ©( May 2025) by Zondervan. Used by permission of Zondervan, www. zondervan. com.
So when your inner child yells for peace and quiet, remember that it is possible. It might take effort and intentionality, but the ingredients are there. We have the promise of peace from the ultimate source, and it’ s up to us to make it.
Looking back at Jesus’ s words“ Blessed are the peacemakers,” I can admit that I’ ve misread this scripture. I’ ve read it as“ Blessed are the peacekeepers.” Maybe you’ ve done the same thing, believing that a person who avoids conflict is a person who lives in peace— but that’ s the furthest thing from what Jesus was communicating. Jesus was not averse to conflict. We will talk more about this shortly,
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Tauren Wells is a celebrated platinum-selling recording artist, multiinstrumentalist, and songwriter with ten GRAMMY ® Award nominations, six number ones, eight GMA Dove Awards, a Billboard Music Award nomination, and over 1.2 billion global streams to date( and counting). Some of his hit songs include Hills and Valleys, Known, Joy In The Morning, and Take It All Back. Tauren and his wife, Lorna, serve as co-lead pastors at Church of Whitestone, a fast-growing, multiethnic, multigenerational church in Austin, Texas. Church of Whitestone strives to establish a church family that empowers people in Austin and around the world to discover their God-authored identity through wholehearted relationship with God. Joy Bomb is Tauren’ s first book. 39