It’s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It’s whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ. “Jesus was sleeping” (v. 24 NCV). Now there’s a scene. The disciples scream; Jesus dreams. Thunder roars; Jesus snores. He doesn’t doze, catnap, or rest. He slumbers. Could you sleep at a time like this? Could you snooze during a roller coaster loop-the-loop? In a wind tunnel? At a kettledrum concert? Jesus sleeps through all three at once! Mark’s Gospel adds two curious details: “[ Jesus] was