Can't you see I'm drowning??? I wonder if you have ever thought to yourself that God doesn't really care? Is he even listening? You certainly would not be the first… And probably not the last. “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Mark 4:38-39 I'm pretty sure that's how the disciples felt out on the boat in the sea of Galilee. There they were battling the winds and the waves and Jesus is sleeping in the back of the boat. Maybe there are days when you feel like you're out there battling the wind and the waves all by yourself. And if there is a God…he's asleep in the back of the boat. But what if we look at it from a slightly different angle. Rather than imagining that we are alone and that God doesn't really care, what if we lived in reality that God is with us in the midst of the storm... not asleep…just waiting for us to call on him for help. And then what if when we call on him for help and are quiet long enough to hear his words: “Peace! Be still!” How might we view our lives and the world around us differently? Blessings, Matthew+ On Sunday mornings we are studying Colossians 3:1-17 and looking at what it means to live a “Kingdom” life: to put off the old ways of living and to put on Christ (more info on the study below). I hope you will consider joining us in this study (in person , online, or at home on your own) as we live into the reality that we have been raised with Christ, and that our lives are hidden with Christ in God. | 
