STEP OUT OF THE BOAT

IT SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY THAT THE ‘STORM WAS COMING’.

WE HEARD ABOUT IT BUT IT DIDN’T SEEM REAL. IT CERTAINLY WOULDN’T AFFECT OUR COUNTRY ,  OUR HOME, OUR LIFE. 

NOW WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORM.  THE BOAT IS VIOLENTLY ROCKING AND WE WANT TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO GET OUT OF IT . SOMEONE WHISPERS IN OUR EAR, ‘TRUST ME’ .

MAYBE YOUR ‘STORM’ IN NOT OUTSIDE AT ALL . MAYBE IT’S IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU SUFFER IN A DIFFERENT WAY.  YOU WANT TO FIND THE CALM. 

YESTERDAY I WAS THRILLED TO WRITE ABOUT THE SNOWBIRDS FLYING IN FORMATION ACROSS CANADA TO HONOUR OUR FRONTLINE WORKERS IN THIS NEW PANDEMIC LIFE. 

TODAY WE READ THAT THE PERFECT FORMATION WAS BROKEN WHEN ONE PLANE CRASHED TO THE GROUND AND A LIFE WAS LOST (CAPTAIN JENNIFER CASEY) AND HER PARTNER IS IN NEED OF HEALING. WHY SO MUCH SUFFERING IN THE WORLD? 

HELEN KELLER SAID THAT ‘ALTHOUGH THE WORLD IS FULL OF SUFFERING,IT IS ALSO FULL OF THE OVERCOMING OF IT.’

IT IS SO EASY TO TRUST WHEN ALL WE CAN SEE ABOUT US IS CALM. WE ‘STEP OUT OF THE BOAT’ . BUT IT IS WHEN WE LOOK AROUND US AND NOTICE THE STORM THAT WE START TO SINK. 

MAYBE IT’S TIME TO STEP OUT OF THE BOAT AND REPEAT THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE, “LORD, SAVE ME!”  (MATTHEW 14:30)

LET’S NOT LET FEAR GET THE BETTER OF US.  EVEN A STORM CAN BE BEAUTIFUL. 

A FRIEND REMINDED ME THE OTHER DAY…’THIS TOO SHALL PASS’.

PEACE FRIENDS…IN YOUR LIVES, IN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS.