Walking on water (Matthew 14:22-36)
I am no Peter.
I am a stay-in-the-boat
Kind of follower
Not venturing out
For either
The exhilaration
Or the failure
Of walking to Jesus.
I would see only
The ferocity
Of the waves
And hear
The howling
Of the wind.
Yet those of us
In the boat
Are also loved
And for us too
The word comes
That stills
The storm.
By Jeannie Kendall