“Love gives itself in covenant and gladly promises devoted love in that covenant; the covenant partner then rests in the security of that promise and may appeal to it…
“In confusion and trouble, you take yourself to the one person who has made a covenant with you… one space of sanity, one refuge still intact… a covenant… kindness in a raw world.
“Biblical peace is not often a general tranquility but rather a rightness at the center in the midst of much turmoil… The Christian then does not have peace because things are peaceful. He has peace because a greater one than Jonathan has pledged his friendship to him… ‘This cup is the new covenant sealed in my blood.’ It is the covenant bond of that unforsaking Friend that speaks peace in our disappointment, dangers, and even disasters.”