S&F-"Teacher, Do You Not Care We Are Perishing?"

In today's Gospel Jesus and his disciples are travelling by boat thru a storm.  The boat is being battered by a storm while Jesus sits in the stern, taking a nap.

One of the disciples wakes Jesus saying:

"Teacher, do you not care we are perishing?"

Jesus wakes, calms the wind and rain, and their journey continues on the calm sea.

In my cancer journey sometimes I feel like the disciples, saying in my prayers, "Jesus, do you not care I am perishing?"

We will all face times that we feel like Jesus is not taking mercy on us and we are out on our own floundering on the seas of life.  We all face storms as we pass through our Earthly journey.  But we need to take confidence in the fact that Jesus would never put us through trails we cannot handle.  Just as he told his disciples he tells us:

"Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?"

In my journey through the sea cancer Jesus isn't asleep leaving me to face it alone.  I have no need to be terrified.  I just need to have faith.