Storms Ahead
Sunday 23 June 2024 Job 38:1-11 Mark 4.35-41 On my phone I have an app called Weatherzone, that tells you what the weather is likely to be up to 10 days ahead - with the cute little sunny faces and fluffy clouds and little diagonal lines for rain. Wind, hail, storm, all represented with cute little emojis that somehow don’t quite do justice to the powerful reality of hot and cold and sunshine and storm that we simply have to plan our lives around! It’s no accident, I think, that we use meteorological terms to describe all of the most powerful influences on our lives - from saving for a rainy day to navigating the choppy waters of an unstable economy or a failing relationship. In the ancient world, one of the most powerful symbols of anxiety and disorder was the chaos of a storm at sea. At sea, you were in the power of forces almost too big to imagine, the violence of wind and waves was so feared that creation itself was supposed to be the result of divine forces holding back the unimag...