The word Shalom means peace or to bring something back to wholeness because it is broken. The world is anything but peace or whole at the moment. Can you think of a time in the last 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+ years that something crazy hasn't been going on in this world?. We all can be sitting in inflatable rings in the wildest sea, being thrown around by all the different waves coming at us from different angles. It is only when we calm ourselves down and recognise God is peace, that He is with us, we can change our inflatable ring for a surf board and ride the waves of life.