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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> the story at the heart of our Gospel for today is the storm at sea</b></span>.
Karl Barth said that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the stormy waters </b></span>in all of these cases <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>stands for </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">das Nichtige</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>,
the nothing, that which stands opposed to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>God’s creative intentions</b></span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>
difficulties both interior and exterior, difficulties physical,
psychological, and spiritual. </b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
disciples in the boat are, as I’ve often said, evocative of the Church,
</b></span>making its way through
time and space. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>And those waters are symbolic of everything that besets
</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>the members of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the Church. </span></b></span>To stay within the emotional space of the
story, this must have been a terrible storm, to have terrified
experienced sailors. This is <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>no small problem, no minor difficulty.</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Do you know<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">de profundis</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
prayer</b></span>? It comes from Psalm 130: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>"Out of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the depths</span>, I have cried to
you, O Lord. O Lord, be attentive to the voice of my pleading."</b></span> It is
the prayer we should offer at the darkest times of life, when we find
ourselves lost and in the shadow of death, when, in our desperation, we
feel utterly incapable of helping ourselves.</span></b></b></b></div>
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