IN MY BOAT 

ON THE LAKE 

Poem for Today - April 14, 2014

THIS YEAR

As this country rocked like a boat in Galilee's storms.
I spent the whole year not losing my faith in God alone,
just doing as I could what had to be done.

Laid up sick, I suffered for more than a month.
there were many hard things in the family and the world,
but having endured it all meekly. it proved more valuable
than any good fortune could have been.

These days, as I dream bright dreams of the world beyond,
entrusting all things to His divine Will,
even if storms are forecast for the coming New Year
there is nothing I fear.

(c) Ku Sang, 

translated from

the Korean by

Brother Anthony

of Taize.

Painting on top: The Storm on the Sea of Galilee [1633].  This is the only known seascape picture by Rembrandt van Rijn. It was on a wall at the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts when it was robbed in 1990.  Check Mark 4: 35-41.