Setting Sail and Facing Storms

​There is certainly a lot of bible stories about Jesus that are set around and on the Sea of Galilee.  Jesus’ home base of Capernaum is on the northern shore of the lake.  Many of his first disciples came from around this area, and were very familiar with the lake from the fishing enterprise. There are a number of stories about the disciples facing storms on that lake.  Though the Sea of Galilee is much smaller than Lake Erie, both are prone to sudden and violent storms. My last days of vacation were spent at a lakeside cottage on Lake Erie, and I witnessed a powerful storm, thankfully from the land.  Lightning was striking the water and the wind was howling, and the waves were huge for a lake.  Quite a number of boats returned to the marina in the early stage of the storm.  (Jesus’ disciples did not have an outboard or inboard motor on their boat.)

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