I have been thinking of the title of this thread for a couple of days and wanted to try & comment. I was very impressed one day to find out that "Salem" means peace. "Jerusalem" means "Foundation of peace", right?
The foundation of God's throne, God's ruling, is righteousness. And once we accepted Jesus Christ as God's righteous sacrifice, we took Him as our righteousness, and we knew real peace. The foundational experience of our christian walk is to know peace. That is the basic 'square one' experience we get when we believe. We have real peace. A peace that can't be taken away.
To me, that is the "more peaceful place" Hope was referring to. There is a place within where peace always dwells. Sometimes we get distracted, but it is always there if we turn back to it. God has given us an unshakeable kingdom, and anchor within the veil that can hold in any storm.
The Lord in His earthly walk never lost that connection. Even when the storms were raging without, He had peace within. That was why He could say to the wind and the waves, "Be still". The external chaos never imposed its way within Him. He always was the Son of Peace, the Prince of Peace.
And now we follow Him. The wrangling that can occasionally be seen in internet forums, as elsewhere, is a demonstration of the fact that Satan can beguile the human race and cause us to lose our way. So, we acknowledge our lack, we acknowledge His abundance, we turn with both repentance and thanksgiving, and we go on. As Hope said, we are "moving to a more peaceful place".
Thanks for letting me share.