A Deep Sleeper [Proper 7B - Mark 4:35-41]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Mark 4:35-41 A Deep Sleeper Waking someone up from a nap is tricky thing – especially when you know they are really tired and they just look so peaceful. In today’s Gospel, Jesus seems really tired. Picture it with me, if you will: The water is falling from the sky in a quantity not seen since the days of Noah; and there, like a baby rocked to sleep in his mother’s arms, lies Jesus, his angelic face, just absolutely drenched by the deluge, his sacred head being tossed back and forth violently by the tumultuous waves, his precious body resting on an extremely saturated cushion. The disciples must have, at least momentarily, wondered if he was dead. The sleeping conditions were, one might say, not optimal. Jesus was clearly tired from working the crowds, and delivering his parables, and casting out demons. But I do believe this, this life-threatening storm, would qualify as an emergen...