Psalm 89:9 You rule the raging of the sea, when its waves rise—you still them.

The sea is a really big mystery. It rose way up high when Noah and his family were there in a wooden boat, the only ones to recognize God’s power over the waves. The early Christians understood that ark as a “type” of the church—the image of a family set apart, safe, as the waters raged around them. St. Peter said that the water of baptism is a sign to us of that great big body of water. We are drawn o the sea, and we know the danger of the sea. We die with Christ in Baptism, and rise up out of the water to live for him.