Peace be with you. John 20:21, 26 

Sharing peace starts with the One who shares it first with us. Jesus’ Easter greeting to the disciples is a Jewish greeting—shalom alechem, peace be with you! But in sharing it with the disciples with the marks in his hands and side, he underscores just how deep that peace is. We are at peace with God, reconciled, brought home into the promise of love and forgiveness. The first response of the disciples was rejoicing. Sharing the peace with one another and with the world would come later. 

In such sharing, we are conveying to one another what Jesus the Christ first gave to us—the peace with God, the forgiveness of our sins. We do so with a spirit of wholeness in what this sharing represents. We have all been blessed with Jesus’ peace. It is God’s final word for us. And it is too good to keep this good news only to ourselves. That makes the moment of sharing all the more filled with rejoicing.
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