“Reader, did you ever stand by the sea-shore after a storm when the wind happens to have gone down suddenly? The waves cannot cease with their cause; indeed, they sometimes seem at first to the ear to lash the surrounding shore more fiercely than while the wind blew. Still we are conscious that the inevitable calm has begun and is now but rocking them to sleep . . . At times a loud wave would every now and then come roaring, but it was only memory’s echo of the tempest that had swept their lives; the storm itself was over.” The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade.

The storm is already over although it may seem that the aftermath is fierce. We are living in the peace that comes after God through Christ has stilled the storm of His own righteous wrath. The inevitable calm has begun. Many loud waves come roaring, but they can’t touch us. We are safe in the peace of the Cross and the Resurrection