Peace

On that day, when evening had come, Jesus said to them, “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?” Mark 4:35-41

Wondrous Creator of sea and sky

you hear your people in their storms

you calm the waters and save us

yet we still do not trust your love.

We are often braced for a fight

or we are crying out in failure

we fail to know your love daily

as we rely on ourselves too much.

Yet you spoke to the wind and the sea

you calmed the raging angry waters

you brought peace in the storm's midst

and will still bring us peace even now.

Help us to be yours in calm and storms

let us be fully dependent on your love

make us live like siblings in one boat

so the world might know your peace. Amen.