Perfect peace is acceptance and knowledge by belief. Acceptance of rights and wrongs and belief in God's provision. If a perfect man (Christ being my ensample) can accept injustice (having all power in His hand), how is it that I cannot (vanity)? I find it a remarkable thing that my avoidance of pain IS the cause of my pain (mental/spiritual anguish). Acceptance however, delivers me from this death (and all things short of it), nullifying it's power over me. By contrast, attempted avoidance and/or disassociation (i.e. nonacceptance), is a million deaths, from which there is no return. With acceptance there is also a death, but of a thing that impedes all serenity; which is vanity. But with this death there is renewal and rebirth, because the impediment to acceptance has been removed. The fire of circumstance has a refining potential if the dross of vanity is removed, returning to the purified silver of perfect peace forevermore.