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In 1991, the National Weather Service Tracked a Nor IN 1991, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TRACKED A NOR’EASTER THAT ABSORBED HURRICANE GRACE AND ULTIMATELY EVOLVED INTO A SMALL HURRICANE LATE IN ITS LIFE CYCLE… THE INITIAL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPED OFF ATLANTIC CANADA AND WAS FORCED SOUTHWARD BY A RIDGE TO ITS NORTH… IT THEN REACHED ITS PEAK INTENSITY AS A LARGE AND POWERFUL CYCLONE. THE STORM LASHED THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES WITH HIGH WAVES AND COASTAL FLOODING… 1 MOVING OVER WARMER WATERS, THE SYSTEM TRANSITIONED INTO A SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE BEFORE BECOMING A TROPICAL STORM… ON NOVEMBER 1ST, THE SYSTEM EVOLVED INTO A FULL FLEDGED HURRICANE WITH PEAK WINDS OF 75 MILES PER HOUR…IT LATER RECEIVED THE NAME, ‘THE PERFECT STORM’… DAMAGE FROM THE STORM TOTALED OVER $200 MILLION AND THE DEATH TOLL WAS THIRTEEN… ASIDE FROM TIDAL FLOODING ALONG RIVERS, THE STORM’S EFFECTS WERE PRIMARILY CONCENTRATED ALONG THE COAST… A BUOY OFF THE COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA REPORTED A WAVE HEIGHT OF 100 FEET, THE HIGHEST EVER 2 RECORDED IN THE PROVINCE’S OFFSHORE WATERS… IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORM, THE ANDREA GALE SANK, KILLING ITS CREW OF SIX AND INSPIRING THE BOOK, AND LATER MOVIE, ‘THE PERFECT STORM’… THAT TERM, ‘PERFECT STORM’ GREW OUT OF A CONVERSATION BETWEEN BOSTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTER ROBERT CASE AND AUTHOR SEBASTIAN JUNGER… IT HAS BECOME PART OF OUR POPULAR CULTURE AND IS AN EXPRESSION THAT NOW DESCRIBES AN EVENT WHERE A RARE COMBINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES AGGRAVATE A SITUATION DRASTICALLY… HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/1991_PERFECT_STORM 3 IN A WAY, THE SITUATION THE DISCIPLES FOUND THEMSELVES IN IN OUR GOSPEL TEXT COULD BE DESCRIBED AS A ‘PERFECT STORM’… SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS ON 3 SIDES, AND MEASURING ONLY 4 MILES ACROSS, THE SEA OF GALILEE WAS A PRIME TARGET FOR THE MOST FEROCIOUS ONSLAUGHTS OF NATURE… FOLLOWING HIS DISCOURSE IN PARABLES ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, JESUS URGED HIS DISCIPLES TO LEAVE THE CROWDS BEHIND, GET INTO THEIR BOAT AND GO OVER WITH HIM TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE… MOST OF THEM, BEING EXPERIENCED FISHERMEN, WOULDN’T HAVE THOUGHT ANYTHING OF IT, BUT THEN A FURIOUS SQUALL CAME UP AND THE WAVES BROKE 4 OVER THE BOAT, SO THAT IT WAS NEARLY SWAMPED… AMAZINGLY, LIKE JONAH, JESUS WAS SLEEPING DURING THE STORM, AND HE HAD TO BE AWAKENED BY A TERRIFIED SHIPMATE WHO PLIED WITH THE QUESTION, ‘DON’T YOU CARE IF WE DROWN?’ HE GOT UP, REBUKED THE WIND, SAID TO THE WAVES, ‘BE STILL’ AND PEACE WAS RESTORED… RECALLING THE TRIUMPH OF GOD IN GENESIS OVER THE RAGING WATERS, THIS STORY SUGGESTS THAT SATAN’S WEAPONS OF CHAOS AND FURY ARE NO MATCH FOR THE SON OF GOD… 5 JESUS NEXT CHIDED HIS DISCIPLES FOR THEIR FEAR AND LACK OF FAITH… NOW FRANKLY, I THINK THAT THIS IS KIND OF HARSH – BEING EXPERIENCED SAILORS, THEY KNEW THE POWER OF NATURE AND HOW DEADLY IT COULD BE ON THE LAKE, AND THEY WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN HUMAN IF THEY DIDN’T FEAR ITS MIGHTY WRATH… BUT ST. MARK’S POINT HERE IS THAT IF THE DISCIPLES KNEW WHO JESUS TRULY WAS, THEY WOULD HAVE TRUSTED HIS ABILITY TO KEEP THEM SAFE… YEAH, POINT WELL TAKEN, BUT I WONDER WHAT ST MARK WOULD’VE SAID, IF HE WERE IN THAT BOAT WITH THE DISCIPLES..I WONDER IF IT IS REALISTIC TO THINK THAT FAITH WIPES OUT ANY HINT 6 OF FEAR OR DOUBT IN THE FACE OF TRAUMA AND CHAOS? I WONDER? WE ALL KNOW THAT ST. MARK’S DISCIPLES HAD JUST BEEN ENLIGHTENED BY JESUS’ TEACHING IN PARABLES AND THAT HE WOULD CONTINUE HIS MISSION WITH DEEDS OF EXTRAORDINARY POWER, BUT IN THE END THEY WOULD FAIL TO UNDERSTAND WHO JESUS REALLY WAS… IT WOULD TAKE AN ACT OF GOD EQUAL TO THE GLORY OF CREATION (EASTER) TO GET THEM TO CONNECT THE DOTS… BUT WHO ARE THESE DISCIPLES? ARE THEY JUST 1ST CENTURY FOLLOWERS OF A JEWISH PROPHET, WISE MAN AND RABBI, OR ARE THEY SOMETHING ELSE? I WOULD SUBMIT TO YOU THAT THEY ARE SOMETHING ELSE – THEY ARE US – 7 WE, WHO HAVE THE BENEFIT OF 2000 YEARS OF WISDOM ABOUT THE MAN FROM NAZARETH, AND STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF THOUSANDS, IF NOT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SAINTS WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN THE NAME OF JESUS.. STILL FIND OURSELVES PARALYZED BY FEAR, DOUBT AND MISUNDERSTANDING AS WE TRY TO NEGOTIATE THE PERFECT STORM THAT IS OUR LIFE OF FAITH… ST MARK’S IMAGE OF THE DISCIPLES CAUGHT IN A SQUALL ON THE SEA OF GALILEE, IS JUST AS POWERFUL AND DISHEARTENING NOW AS IT WAS 20 CENTURIES AGO… NOTHING HAS CHANGED – THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS ARE JUST AS FLAWED AND UNCOMPREHENDING 8 NOW AS THEY WERE IN HIS LIFETIME… BUT THE REAL QUESTION IS, WHERE IS GOD IN THIS TRAGIC DRAMA? I WOULD SUGGEST THAT HE IS PLAYING THE SAME ROLE TODAY THAT HE DID 2000 YRS AGO - TEACHING, PREACHING AND PERFORMING EXTRAORDINARY ACTS FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND LIKE ME – THE QUESTION IS, DO WE SEE HIM – DO WE FEEL HIM – DO WE HEAR HIM – GOD’S PRESENCE IS NOT ALWAYS SO OBVIOUS – BUT THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DETECT HIM IS IF WE, LIKE A RADIO, ARE TURNED ON AND TUNED IN – THIS TAKES WORK, IT TAKES DISCIPLINE, IT TAKES KNOWING HOW TO QUIET DOWN AND LISTEN TO A STILL SMALL VOICE EVEN IN MIDST OF THE DEAFENING CACOPHONY THAT IS EVERYDAY LIFE IN 21ST CENTURY AMERICA… 9 THE DISCIPLES OF ST MARK’S GOSPEL DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHO JESUS WAS DURING HIS MINISTRY BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT FOCUSED – THEY WEREN’T TURNED ON OR TUNED IN… BUT WE HAVE THE BENEFIT OF BEING HEIRS OF THE GLAD GOOD NEWS OF EASTER MORNING AND OF FOLLOWING THE SPIRITUAL PATHWAY OF THE SAINTS THAT LEADS FROM SILENCE TO MEDITATIVE READING, TO REFLECTION, TO PRAYER AND FINALLY TO CONTEMPLATION WE HAVE A WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL LEGACY TO DRAW UPON AS WE, ENGAGE WITH THE INEVITABLE STORMS OF OUR LIVES AND WE HAVE SO MUCH WE CAN LEARN TOGETHER AS FALL APPROACHES AND WE BEGIN OUR FULL SCHEDULE OF BIBLE STUDIES 10 UPCOMING SERMON SERIES ON THE WAR WITHIN AND FASCINATING STORIES ABOUT FORGOTTEN LIVES IN THE BIBLE, WILL HOPEFULLY GUIDE US IN THIS RIGOROUS DISCIPLINE OF TURNING ON AND TUNING IN TO THE MASTER WHO IS, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN, LORD OF SEA AND SKY – THE ONE WHO ASKS THE ETERNAL QUESTIONS – WHO WILL BEAR HIS LIGHT - WHO WILL SPEAK HIS WORD – WHO WILL GIVE HIS LIFE TO HIS PEOPLE ? MAY THE OBVIOUS ANSWER BE – HERE I AM, LORD, I HAVE HEARD YOU CALLING IN THE NIGHT – I WILL GO – I WILL HOLD YOUR PEOPLE IN MY HEART… (Hymn 574) 11 12 .
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