Some trouble isn't inside you. It's in the space between you and someone you love — or used to.
A conversation that ended wrong and never recovered.
A family that looks fine from the outside.
A friendship that quietly disappeared.
The absence of peace between people carries its own specific weight. And it doesn't resolve just by wanting it to.
and there’s a peace that is above and through it all.
and there’s a peace that is above and through it all.
Something in your relationship that neither of you knows how to name.
children from broken family environments are over three times more likely to experience anxiety disorders.
estrangement and relational fracture are among the most significant mental health risk factors across every demographic.
broken relationships aren't a secondary problem — they are one of the primary ways people experience a lack of peace in life.
where is the distance?
family — parents, siblings, the people you didn't choose but are bound to
friendship — a friendship that ended, changed, or never recovered from something
romantic — a relationship that broke, or is breaking, or feels fragile in ways you can't name
carrying someone else's pain — when you're the one holding space and running out of it
we were created to be in relationship.
it’s why strained relationships are the quickest ways lack of peace is felt.
but no broken relationship is beyond the reach of something bigger than the fracture.
He himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.
— Ephesians 2:14
Barrier
Barrier
the dividing wall — hostility, distance, the thing that stands between two people or groups and keeps peace from flowing.
the dividing wall — hostility, distance, the thing that stands between two people or groups and keeps peace from flowing.
that verse in its original context was referring to the Jews and non-Jews, who did not associate with one another due to the historical separation from their cultural, religious, and social barriers.
but the same power that broke down that wall is available in the space between you and the person you're estranged from.
that doesn't mean every relationship gets restored immediately or in the way that we want. it means no broken relationship is beyond the reach of something bigger than the fracture.
but peace is not just a feeling.
or something that is brought into a relationship.
Jesus himself is our peace.
he is called the Prince of Peace.
and the peace he gives doesn't depend on the other person responding the way you want them to.
it has a source outside of the relationship — one that holds even when the relationship doesn't.
and within that, a hope that when Jesus is in the centre of a relationship, He is the Peace that the relationship needs.
today, whether the relationships that matter to you are characterised by his peace, you can receive the Prince of Peace.
a peace that was secured at enormous cost and offered freely to you.
and when your life is filled with his peace, you can bring Him, and His peace, into your relationships.
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the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
— Isaiah 53:5
today, you can receive the Prince of Peace
and you can receive His peace
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