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"My peace I give you" says Jesus a few hours before he died a violent death on the cross the next day. The entire paradox of our human existence is concentrated in this sentence of Jesus. Who in their right mind would ask for this peace? And yet Jesus gives us this. If we took seriously what he said as parting, that he would be with us every day, then our whole life would be in a different light. There is no greater gift than being in the presence of the living God at every moment. In fact, we do not dare to believe in this, even if we give our problems and difficulties to Jesus, we take them back right away, we do not dare to trust that he will really take care of us. If we believed that we are only subcontractors in the project of our own existence, while God is the main contractor, our whole life would be transformed.