Peace – my dictionary defines it as “freedom from disturbance; quiet, tranquility.”
Challenges to peace are both internal and external. My peace may be challenged by the music from my neighbor’s yard or from that recollection of a past injustice, from the solicitor’s ringing my doorbell to suggest I vote for Ted Cruz or from the recall of an impending deadline I have not yet met. In this it occurs to me that the absence of the neighbor’s music or the solicitor skipping my house is no guarantee of peace unless I have worked things out internally. Damn it! It is so much easier to blame others.