Sunday/Storms

                    Sunday/Storms

In today's gospel, Christ rebukes the wind and the sea.

"Then it began to blow a great gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped.
But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep.
They woke him and said to him, 'Master, do you not care? We are lost!' And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, 'Quiet now! Be calm!' And the wind dropped, and there followed a great calm.
Then he said to them, 'Why are you so frightened? Have you still no faith?'"

This must have been quite a moment for fishermen but it is more than magical, it is a reordering of hierarchies and laws. Paul writes:

"From now onwards, then, we will not consider anyone by human standards: even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human standards, we do not know him in that way any longer.
So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see."

Paul humanizes this revolution, as he would, but, of course, it has universal implications. This is a submission of natural laws to Christ. Think Newton and Einstein.