The are literal storms and there figurative storms: but a storm is storm. And they feel like it: the pounding waves of physical illness, the tsunami’s of social upheaval, the thunder of relational conflict. It feels like we’re over our heads, sinking further and further down; or shipwrecked off to the side of life. As God provides Paul and company with assurance in a literal storm, we are given the same assurance for ours.