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 while Jesus was 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. The storms of life are battering you and you are quickly losing hope. 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 on our own, and that God doesn't really care, what if we lived in the reality that God is with us in the midst of the storm. We can rest in the assurance that Jesus is not asleep and that he is just waiting for us to call on him for salvation. And, when we call on him for help and are quiet…willing to listen, we hear his words: “Peace! Be still!” Blessings,
Matthew+ O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your lovingkindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (BCP p.230) | 
