No one with a spiritual focus to their lives, Christian or not, could fail to be moved by the following saying of Jesus:

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

As we look around our fellows in our 12-Step programs, the ones we seem drawn to are those who seem to be at peace. Sure, we're attracted to the big talkers, the evangelists, the old-timers, the good-looking or well-dressed members, the ones who've found Jesus or some other religion, the ones who tell us it's simple, if we just don't use and go to meetings. But the members we really want to know about are those members who are at peace. It's not that they talk peace. It's that they project it; it seems to be who they are, what they are. They live peace. And usually they work the last three Steps daily, conscientiously, willingly.

The founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance, Dr. Albert Simpson, speaks of

the peace of God that passeth all understanding; a quietness and confidence, which is the source of all strength; a sweet peace, which nothing can offend. There is in the deepest center of the believer's soul a chamber of peace where God dwells, and where, if we will only enter in and hush every other sound, we can hear His "still voice."