In the centre of the storm Jesus rested, while all around him the disciples were paralyzed with fear, the fear of dying.
Like the disciples we fear what we cannot control, what we cannot understand, and what we cannot see.
Our fear is contagious and so panic rages through a crowd who on mass turn from their fear and trample each other trying to get away from what they are afraid of.
We stopped thinking, giving over to panic.
We lose sight of the possibility of joy, of help, of piece, of a solution, a the way through our fear.
All we know is panic.
Jesus rested into the chaos of the storm that night. His focus was not on the lightning, the thunder, the way the waves rocked the small boat that he was in he was focussed on faith.
He knew his father controlled even that storm and in those moments while all around him terror raged he saw God and knew peace.
Here is the challenge that we are left with, to control our fear, to focus on our faith in God to be the calm in the storm knowing that God controls even the thing you are afraid of.
To learn to pray in the face of fear with the expectation of joy and peace.
Grandma Snyder
©twosnydergirls 2018
Thank you Juanita Laverty for your words of wisdom this morning and inspiring this post.
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