A young pastor once visited a woman who has in therapy for her cancer. Things had been going well with her treatment, still she complained, lamented her fate. A relative of hers and the pastor listened at her bedside to her tale of woe, a tale which seemed odd, considering that the doctors said they were quite pleased with her progress. You know tragedy. Bad things happen to good people all the time.
Life is often terribly unfair.
In fact, sometimes it seems as if the worst tragedies happen to the best of people. You know that. Well, then things are more open-ended that we have thought. There is always hope, always a way even when there seems no way, and things are never over until He, in his wisdom, says its over. This story begins with Jesus rebuking the wind and the waves and ends with his rebuke of his own disciples.