Every year when the peace week of the Advent season comes around, I find myself overwhelmed with gratitude for its impeccable timing. Every year, I find that I need its reminders a little bit more. The longing for peace runs deep. And what I find so comforting is that though year to year it’s different what threatens to steal away this gift of peace, the gift remains greater than our circumstance time and time again. This week I read this passage in Luke (which I always hear in the voice of Linus from the Charlie Brown Christmas special) and I meditated on what exactly was meant by this peace that the angels…