"And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.
A gale arose on the lake, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
And they went and woke him up, saying, ‘Lord, save us! We are perishing!’
And he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, you of little faith?’ Then he
got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a dead calm.
They were amazed, saying, ‘What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?’"
Matthew 8:23-27
In the same way that the birth of Christ is a reversal of human norms so too is the redemption. "God comes into the very midst of evil and death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, god cleanses and sanctifies us with grace and love." In the very places we feel lowest and furthest from God, those are the very places God finds us. We can find comfort in that thought, and move away from fear towards an understanding that there is hope!
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