"The gifts of love are beyond compare, and chief among them is a peace that passeth understanding. Your mind, your intellect cannot provide the balm of peace; that comes only from a heart overflowing with love. I believe that the gift of peace is ultimately from Christ, but I also recognize the very crucial role that a loving partner and a happy home can play.

That domestic tranquility, as it fills a home to overflowing and permeates your daily world, is the subject of A Peaceful Time, second in the trio of prints conjuring images of very special Places in the Heart. Here is a cottage radiant with the light of love; it pours through the windows and bathes the cobbled path."

--- Thomas Kinkade