Like a cat asleep on a chair

Like a cat asleep on a chair...
at home in the house of the living
PAX, DH Lawrence

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Jesus asleep during the storm, Almelo Strawinsky

Peace in the house and fire of (one's own) life

Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”  He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?”. Matthew 8:23-26

Curled up in a rocking wind and rain swept boat, a hand carelessly draped across the side, what do I make of Jesus' creaturely contentment, in the house and fire of the God of the living?

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From PAX

Sleeping on the hearth of the living world,
yawning at home before the fire of life
feeling the presence of the living God
like a great reassurance
a deep calm in the heart
a presence
as of a master sitting at the board
in his own and greater being,
in the house of life.

D.H. Lawrence