This Sunday we continue the Advent season as we look at the Gifts of Christmas. You see peace symbols on cars. You see people flash the peace sign. It would seem that our world is preoccupied with peace. But the peace the world is looking for is an absence of conflict. And although world peace is something we would like to see happen, what we need even more is an inward peace that only comes with a right relationship with God. It is through the birth of Jesus that we are offered the Gift of Peace.