It’s a tough call.

If I found myself sitting in a boat, in rough water, and then I saw Christ Jesus walking by on the water, I don’t know if I’d risk walking on the water to be with Christ. Would I sit in the boat?

The safety of the boat is already precarious, bobbing and thrashing in storm water, or maybe the boat is stuck in a spinning eddy, going nowhere. Either way, the idea of stepping out of the boat is intriguing.

The disciple Peter was intrigued enough to try walking on the water. He floundered and started sinking, paying too much attention to the storm, but it was recorded that, ^“Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. ‘You of little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’” Matthew 14:22-33

Peter had no answer. But he didn’t need one, because Christ calmed the storm and they made it to shore, encouraging Peter to continue stepping out with Christ.

This reminds me also that if I’m really good at a skill, yet in an environment where others are afraid, it’s okay to get in the boat and help calm the situation, rather than walk on by.

From 21st Century Science and Health, “Person is never sick, for Mind is not sick. Material particles can’t be sick. False thinking is the tempter and the tempted, the sin and the sinner, the disease and its cause. It is beneficial to be calm around sickness or when feeling sick; and to be hopeful is still better. However, understanding that sickness is not real and that Truth can destroy its seeming reality is best of all, for this understanding is the universal and perfect remedy.”