What is peace?

The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7

It seems everyone wants it but no one has a real clear answer of what it is or how you can get it or keep it.
Webster’s definition: freedom from or stopping of war; freedom from public disturbance or disorder; freedom from disagreement or quarrels, harmony; an undisturbed state of mind, absence of mental conflict; calm, quiet, tranquility. Basically, is peace what happens when conflict and problems are not present? If so do I have to get rid of all those things that create anxiety in my life in order for me to have peace?
Do I have to get rid of my husband or my kids, or my neighbors, or my bills? Is that what some of our homeless have pursued? If this is what we need to do, Ii don’t think we will every have peace because as long as you are alive, you will always have conflict, and will always have problems.

Paul is teaches us in his letter to the people of Philippi that “Peace is that calm of mind that is not ruffled by adversity, overclouded by remorseful conscience, or disturbed by fear." Peace doesn’t come with the absence of the storm, it comes in the presence of the storm because Jesus is walking there beside us and we’ve got our eyes on Him.