{"id":1585,"date":"2011-11-11T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2011-11-11T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:01:59","slug":"swamped-by-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Swamped by the Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.\u00a0And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.\u00a0And they went and woke him, saying, &#8220;Save us, Lord; we are perishing.&#8221;\u00a0And he said to them, &#8220;Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?&#8221; Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.\u00a0And the men marveled, saying, &#8220;What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?&#8221; \u2013 Matthew 8:23-27 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Like the disciples in that boat, often in our lives it feels as if we\u2019re in the center of a raging storm with no safe harbor in sight.\u00a0 If we lay aside those fears and doubts and place our whole trust in Christ\u2019s benevolent desires for us, those crashing waves and battering winds soon lose their strength.\u00a0 In His loving embrace we can always find the peace and fortitude we need to face our worldly trials.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.\u00a0And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.\u00a0And they went and woke him, saying, &#8220;Save us, Lord; we are perishing.&#8221;\u00a0And he said to them, &#8220;Why are you afraid, O [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2112,3194,1180,269,2113,2110,2114,2111],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-christs-embrace","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-jesus","tag-peace-and-fortitude","tag-raging-storm","tag-safe-harbor","tag-storms-in-our-lives"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}