{"id":1244,"date":"2022-07-15T23:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:22:05","slug":"astoundment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Astoundment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a storm on the Sea of Galilee,&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn2\" id=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wild, white-tipped waves, mountainous and monstrous,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wind-driven, swamp the boat threateningly,<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" style=\"width: 1px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inundating, with power to sink us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Some row, some bale, a desperate mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cast flabbergasted, furtive, glances<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the figure lying on the cushion,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can he sleep in these circumstances?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2019<\/strong>Master, do you want us to die?\u2019, I say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Have you still no faith?\u2019&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn3\" id=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> &nbsp;he asks us, standing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Be still!\u2019&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn4\" id=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; The raging sea is suddenly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a millpond and it is heart-stopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Who is this man?\u2019, we wonderingly say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018That even the wind and the waves obey?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Ian David Wall 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Biblical quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Anglicized version, copyright \u00a9 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.&nbsp;&nbsp; Used by permission. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> This poem was inspired by a passage from the gospel of Mark, 4: 35-41.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" id=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Mark 4:40, NRSV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" id=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Mark 4:39, NRSV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a storm on the Sea of Galilee,&nbsp; [1]&nbsp; [2] Wild, white-tipped waves, mountainous and monstrous, Wind-driven, swamp the boat threateningly, Inundating, with power to sink us. Some row, some bale, a desperate mission. We cast flabbergasted, furtive, glances At the figure lying on the cushion, How can he sleep in these circumstances? \u2019Master, do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}