Mark 4:35–41
On
that day, when evening had come, Jesus said to the disciples, “Let us go across
to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in
the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose,
and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said
to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and
rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased,
and there was a dead calm. He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still
no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who
then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Reflection
Can
I put yourself imaginatively into the boat with the disciples and allow myself
to experience the happy anticipation at the start of the voyage and then the
terror as the gale sweeps in?
Am
I embarrassed when Jesus questions my faith? Is there anything I want to say to
him after this adventure?