I find the key to peace is total abandonment to Providence. Realizing there is only your own soul and Christ in the world, and absolutely everything is Him coming to the soul, helping the soul, training the soul as a loving Father. When I walk with those eyes in times of consolation, I glide over the waves like St. Peter gazing at Christ on the sea. Now I just have to learn how to do the same thing when I am blind in desolation, which is when, also like St. Peter, I look away from His Face and stare down at my feet and start to sink. I know that the repeated trials in desolation are the good Lord patiently leading me to total trust, which is hammered out in the dark. May I learn to trust Him to my bones!