A RECIPE FOR PEACE

You have been chasing something you were already holding. Dr. Royce "Sully" Sullivan knows that chase personally. Church to church. Altar to altar. Prayed over, oiled up, flat on the floor — and sure, every single time, that this time he finally had it. Then he'd walk back into his real life, and his situation would slap the taste out of his mouth. The night he finally stopped chasing and simply sat with the Word, he found something that reordered everything: the peace was never being withheld. It had been given already. The problem was what he kept letting cook in his mind. A Recipe for Peace is what came out of that discovery — a plain-spoken, verse-by-verse walk through Philippians 4, the chapter a man wrote from a prison cell about how to keep your mind when everything around you says you shouldn't. It is not a poem about peace. It is a recipe. And like any recipe, it only works if you follow it. Inside, you'll learn: Why rejoicing is a command, not a question — and how to obey it on the days you don't feel it How to let your steadiness show on the outside while you're still at war on the inside — and why you need one safe person What "be anxious for nothing" actually means (hint: it's not a scold — it's a clean canvas) The one little word "but" that cancels your worry and hands you the brush How to pray specific instead of foggy — and why the thanksgiving comes before the answer Where peace actually lives — the address hiding in a comma most readers skim right past How to run the eight-test inventory on any thought that steals your sleep And the centerpiece: ONLY. Peace is subtraction, not addition. The book moves in three movements — peace in your skin, peace in your space, peace with people — and the order is not optional. You cannot hand somebody a calm you don't carry. Written with a pastor's directness and an honest man's refusal to pretend, this book is for anyone who has been told to "just have faith" and needed something they could actually do at two in the morning. Includes reflection and practice at the end of every chapter, a six-week small-group guide, and the complete recipe at a glance. Total peace. Nothing missing. Nothing broken.