At Christmas one year, some boys and girls asked Peace if she felt lonely during the holidays. She said, “No. I love being with people; but when I am alone, I never feel lonely. Nobody can feel lonely when they know that God is inside them and watches over them, because they know that this spiritual Power is their best Friend.”

Peace then said, "One Christmas Eve, I slept out under the stars and saw a planet so bright that I thought about the star of Bethlehem the night Jesus was born. The next morning, on Christmas day, I walked into a city and found poinsettia flowers blooming everywhere."

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"To have inner peace is a process like a child learns to walk, slowly by taking steps," Peace Pilgrim taught. "The first step is to get ready for peace by thinking only good thoughts and asking God for guidance in all things."

"Every day we prepare for different things," she said, "like getting ready for school, so why not prepare ourselves to have peace, joy and energy that day. ..."

"By thinking of our nearness with God, we will prepare ourselves to have peace that day, and every day after that..."

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The next step after preparing for peace, she taught, was
"to learn to control our anger and any bad feelings we might have toward others. We must let go of all unkind or selfish feelings and actions. When we want peace and kindness strong enough, we become peaceful and kind."

Peace said that when we go to bed at night, before falling asleep, if we could think of ourselves as connected with God, this will help us.

"That Power which created us will always be within us."

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