The Storm and the Angel

The Storm and the Angel
Acts 27.13-32

It’s a long time since I’ve been seasick, but the last time I came close to it I was more or less in the same place as Paul in the middle of this storm. I was doing some guest lectures, and taking some services, on a cruise ship (the things clergy will do for a vacation!), and I was scheduled to speak precisely about Paul’s voyages and the shipwreck in particular. But during the lecture before mine, the ship began to heave and roll this way and that. At one point the grand piano in the lecture room slipped its moorings and came sliding across the floor, only being stopped from crashing into the audience by some quick thinking crew members. It was exciting and a bit frightening. I had been taking detailed notes on the lecture before mine, which was on the ancient archaeology of the Tunisian Roman sites, which we were due to visit after we had been to Malta. And my concentration on my own scribbles, written on a table that was coming and going, up and down, and moving from side to side, did to my sense of balance what you might expect. I went off to the cabin and lay down for a while. Fortunately I was able to get up and stay on my feet for my own lecture...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 2 by Tom Wright