The Bargain (Day 3 from Cleansing Thoughts)
As I look back on my life, I realize I got the better part of that bargain. There have been many times in these in these past twenty years that the seas became fearful, but like Peter, I have learned to step out of the boat and call upon the name of the Lord. I am deeply grateful for the guiding hand of God that saw my husband through a successful surgery, and I am eternally grateful to a God who exchanges bargains for commitments. I have had the opportunity to visit Israel twice, and one of the most astonishing places I got to see was the Sea of Galilee. In my mind. I had pictures this as a great body of water like the Mediterranean or the Dead Sea, but much to my surprise, it is a lake only 13 miles long and 7 miles wide and has a froth of about 157 feet at its deepest point. Both times I was there, the sea was was as calm as glass, but our guide explained that because it was 685 feet below sea level and virtually surrounded by cliffs and hills, it was subje...