When storms of evil assault our boat
we flee for refuge to Jesus,
asleep beneath a thwart
on a peaceful cushion,
and wake him: “Don’t you care
that we’re in danger?”

He wakes, and wakes us with him,
takes us with him,
gathers us in his arms,
his whole soaking church,
and climbs up into the storm
with us, faces the waves with us,
and breathes a different kind of wind
into us—us, for this storm is ours—
a breath by which we ourselves can cry out
in a voice that creates what it names,
“Peace! Be still.”

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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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