No. 7 Make Peace

Be at peace with one another. Matthew 5:9; Mark 9:50

Imagine sitting in darkness on a cold sandy beach before the dawn. Imagine staring at the horizon where earth kisses sky until the speck of sunlight, as small as a pinhead illuminates the whole world. There is a peaceful eyeful; there is a powerful event. God and the children of God know that sheer power, radioactive power, atomic power, holy power is required to make and maintain peace.
To fight one another is to roll down a grassy hill; it is a natural gravity-fed, physical, emotional and simple act. To make peace, that lily-white breeze of a feeling, is to be victorious over nature which, without it would force the whole wide world into hell if God blinked.

Aspiring immortals make peace by using holy power over self, to forebear, to self-correct, to be merciful. Then we are capable of being at peace with others.
To quash evil, sometimes soldiers must make peace with bombs and bayonets for the same reason that the cross gave life and that chemotherapy heals. In all cases peace requires power, power over evil whether the evil exudes from the world or your own soul.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God who will be welcomed with His open arms into His awesome eternally peaceful kingdom.