Now when we experience happiness, or what we think of as happiness, in this world, it is often very shallow, something relatively superficial. Not so the happiness of the angels. Their happiness fills their whole being. And the very soul of this happiness, its very origin, is peace. Peace, for the angels, is not simply a lack of conflict, a lack of those things which might disturb them.
Peace is something far deeper.
Peace is something that flows into the angels from the Lord, from which comes all their happiness. The angels experience this because they have received the Lord, received Him into their hearts, their minds, their lives. The Lord is the Prince of Peace. He is the origin of all that is happy, all that is blessed, all that is joyful. The miracle, the wonder of Christmas, is that such happiness, such joy, can be ours.