Jesus in the Boat
Mark 4:35-39 "On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?' And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be Still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm." I've spent a lot of time thinking about this story with Jesus in the boat, and storm has really been a lot of what I have reflected on. Jesus commanded the wind to stop and it did! He brought peace in the middle of chaos. Sometimes in our lives Jesus doesn't always calm the storm the way we want him to. My aunt still died from cancer, friends lost siblings, los...