ISSL Reflections June 13, 2021, Matthew 8:23-27 Post 1

I.
We have a short passage to focus on this week, but maybe short doesn’t have to mean of small importance.

Read the passage and notice what holds your attention. Where do you want to stop reading and linger with the scene and move deeper into it?

II.
Matthew 8:23-27

And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. A windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a dead calm. They were amazed, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

III.
Do you have the scene clearly in mind?

How do you read it? Do you read it from the disciples’ point of view? Do you read it from Jesus’ point of view?

Why not try to look at it from both views? How does it differ? Which speaks to you more at this moment?

IV.
Read the passage once again and as you read it pick out the 4 or 5 words that stand out to you the most.

As you reflect on those few words, does anything in this Scripture passage take on more depth for you?

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est}


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