The Apostle Paul encouraged his fellow travelers to eat. Without nourishment, they would have been too weak to weather any storm, much less a big one. True, when we are sad or struggling, we lose our appetites. But in order to be wrecked and not ruined, we must feed ourselves with whatever sustains us to help us survive. He broke bread, blessed it, and gave it to them.
Eating is good.
Praying is even better. And if we have doubts that we can do it, perhaps this final thought of some of the world's greatest men and women who had to deal with the shipwrecks of life that could have sunk them will inspire us. Cripple a person, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Subject him to bitter religious prejudice and you have a Benjamin Disraeli.