Today, at mass, the deacon read the powerful story of Jesus walking on the water. As a boy, this writer loved a painting of this scene in Divine Savior Hospital, Portage, Wisconsin. For some reason this painting has remained with him over the decades.
The disciples of Jesus were crossing the Sea of Galilee, while Jesus remained behind to pray, when a horrific storm overtook them. They believed they were going to perish; in the middle of their fear, they suddenly saw Jesus walking on the water through the storm toward them!
The disciple Peter, always bold, asked Jesus if Peter could walk on the water with Jesus. Jesus consented and took Peter's hand, but Peter saw a gigantic wave coming at him, became fearful, and began to sink. Peter begged Jesus to save him, which Jesus did.
Jesus also stilled the storm and pointed out the power of Faith to keep us afloat to his disciples - and to us today.
We are all riding the Titanic today in America, for sure. Economic, political, cultural waves hammer our "boat," and we become afraid about what is going to happen next to us.
This event, "the Stilling of the Storm," on the Sea of Galilee centuries ago speaks to us today. If we continue to put our trust in politicians, banksters, degenerate Hollywood culture,and post-modern intellectuals, the storms that buffet our boats will cause us to lose hope.
We put our faith in the wrong things, persons, teachings, and the result is fear about what is going to happen to us, individually and collectively.
With Faith, however, we need not fear the "storms of life" no matter how fiercely they howl at and try to sink us.
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