"To be spiritually minded is life and peace"

Romans 8:6 "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

When I read this scripture it really impacted me and made me think about my life and when I have truly been at peace and like the scripture says, I have only been truly peaceful when I have been living righteously. I remember when I was on my mission, we were teaching a lady named Elizabeth and seeing a great change come upon her family. When she first received the missionaries she told them that she would never go to Church, but three weeks later after receiving a testimony that the Church was true, she was in Church every week afterwards. Her family however was not quite as responsive, but after three months her husband finally started to listen to us and accepted our invitation to go to Church. We promised him that if he came to Church that his family would be blessed. Well, the entire family went to Church, but the blessings we had promised them did not quite happen the way we expected them to. The very next day their washing machine broke, so Elizabeth was forced to do all of the laundry by hand. The following day their refrigerator stopped working and all of their food, including all of their meat that they had just bought went bad and had to be thrown out. The following day the husband, Daniel, lost his job. Then to top it all off, their grandaughters who were living with them decided to go to a party but needed some money, so they stole Elizabeth's money that she had saved for a rainy day and spent all of it at their party. I remember passing by each day and I kept asking myself why all of these terrible things were happening to this family after they had completed with their end of the bargain by attending Church. Well needless to say I didn't expect to see any of them in Church the following Sunday, but to my surprise they were all there and they were happy. When I asked Elizabeth why they had come, she told me, "Elder we don't have anything of value and we are poorer than we've ever been, but for the first time in our life we are truly happy." The Lord had blessed this family in a way that we had not seen; He had given them peace and happiness that only comes when we are living worthy. Despite all of their trials the Lord blessed them with his spirit, which they valued more than all their possesions. I know that we truly do receive peace when we keep the commandments of God and are spiritually minded.

John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."