holy life lesson and a half

I must admit that i am a bit down in the dumps today. Life has felt really hard, even though i know it's not. One of the two photographs i turned in today just didn't turn out the way i wanted it to. Blerg. I just want to go home and sleep all night. I suppose we always feel like our lives are hard when things just don't go the way we imagined them to. I guess that's what this life is about though. Learning to be happy when things don't always go as planned. In New Testament class yesterday we talked about Christ calming the waters. We looked at the story as told in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In Luke it is said a bit differently, "And they came to him, and woke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was calm. And he said unto them, Where is your faith?" Christ, rather than yelling over the storm as in the other gospels, he stops the storm and then turns to them and asks where their faith has gone. Just like a parent to a child, which is more affective? Which pierces the heart more directly? How prevalent this seems to be in all of our lives. We turn to the Lord when things go wrong; we want Him to fix things now, for we feel we are in some kind of danger; whether emotional, spiritual, or physical. The thing we have to realize is that sometimes the Lord calms the sea, but sometimes he calms the sailor. I know that i have had to put this into my life in many ways lately. It's amazing that the Lord can tell you just what you need if you really look for it. I feel so humbled to know that sometimes there are bigger things than my problems, even when it doesn't feel like it. I need to sit back, be comforted by the Lord, and then work through it. And maybe, just maybe... ok most definitely i will learn something, which is far better than letting the trial be taken from me.