Peace that passes all understanding

It hurts me to know others are hurting. Today was a really hard day for my high school friends who knew Ryan, who took his own life a year ago. It's hard to know what to say in a situation when words are simply not enough to comfort the broken heart of another. Loss is a very tricky subject, because everyone grieves differently, experience it differently, and are affected by it differently.

Peace that passes all understanding- I hear a lot of people pray these words often-probably because they took it striaght from the bible.  But today I actually took the time to think about the implication of this phrase.

Peace.
Even when we can't understand. When we can't comprehend how peace came to be, when we in our own power can not will ourselves to be peaceful, peace.
An inner calm.

This is my prayer for my teenagers today who are hurting

---That you may have peace that passes all understanding.----

In loving memory of Ryan Trost

 whom I did not know-but from many stories I've heard in the last year he was a talented, adored person who is loved and missed by many.