Mark 4:38/39
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.
The disciples woke him and said to him,
“Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!”
Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
Mary, outside a tomb, carrying ointments
and a storm of grief,
hears the voice that calmed the waters
in tones of comfort:
‘Be still and know that I am God’.
At an Emmaus home, over broken bread,
in a storm of confusion,
hear the voice that calmed the waters
in tones of understanding:
‘Be still and know that I am God’.
Thomas, alone in the crowded upper room,
filled with the raging storm of bewilderment
hears the voice that calmed the waters
in tones of inclusion:
‘Be still and know that I am God’.
Peter, at the lake-side, ragged and wretched
in the paralysing storm of guilt,
hears the voice that calmed the waters
in tones of reconciliation:
‘Be still and know that I am God’.
Poet Keith Wallis
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‘in moments like these’: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2004342
‘a River of Small Stones‘: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1943350
‘by still waters‘: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1488528
‘a River of Small Stones II’ : http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2419455
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