It is difficult, frustrating, and exhausting to live with an illness that requires special attention and care.
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We have all had some difficult experience that goes beyond our control, and it can start to affect us too much when we are prevented from being able to continue with our usual life, or that battle not only affects us directly but also affects those who are important to us.
From the disciples’ question about Jesus, it seems that it is still unclear to them who he is.
As a child, I remember that what I was most afraid of was the dark. In a way, I felt that everything bad was in the dark, so I didn’t like it, and it would be even worse if I were alone.
As Jesus slept through the storm, the disciples were in despair and fear.
I think most of us have felt an apparent absence, silence, or inactivity from God; it seems that He is sleeping while we are dealing with our needs, a strong storm in our life that we feel our life is sinking, and there is no sign that the storm is going to end soon.
In these days that we have had low temperatures, I remember that in February 2021, we had some very cold days.
There is a passage that I share a lot in funerals, and it is Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, and it tells us that everything has its time, to weep and to laugh, to embrace and to refrain from embracing, to be born and to die.
Every time I get home, the first question is, “How was your day? And typically my answer is, Great!
A group of friends, a sick person, helped and directed by those friends to Jesus. Not only was he healed, but his sins were forgiven, religious authorities were scandalized, and witnesses to this event were amazed.