See bulletin When I was about 5 years old, I remember my grandfather pulling out into an intersection. As he did that, I remember looking through my rear passenger window at that speeding red convertible coming over the hill. My eyes met the widening eyes of the driver just before he slammed into my car door. Except just about biting through my tongue, we all walked away. When I was about ten I was riding my friend’s dirt bike up by his cabin. I remember taking a wrong turn and dropping down a steep embankment and losing control ‘just enough’ to spill the bike and slide onto the front porch of a neighbor’s house, instead of ramming straight into the wall. Both accidents could have or should have been easily fatal, but the Lord had other plans for me. In fact, what events in life does NOT have some level of the Lord's divine intervention? I imagine Peter speaking and preaching in a similar way, when he retold others about that time on the stormy sea when Jesus walked out on the water to Him! Peter, having doubted along with the others at first that it really was the Lord, was given permission to walk with the Lord on the waters! Matthew 14:28 says, “And Peter answered Him and said, ‘Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.’” Much like each of us, when we are faced with the storms of this life, even death itself, we may doubt like Peter did. Or wonder in our sickness or in health whether the Lord is really near or with us. Peter would see first-hand, more than once, His Savior’s hands delivering him. When Peter sank in fear and doubt into those stormy waters, our Savior’s hands reached down from above and rescued him. When Peter sank in fear and doubt after denying to know Jesus so heatedly, our Savior’s hands reached down from above and rescued him by forgiving him for that as well. Our Savior’s hands protected Peter through storms of both sea and soul, pulling him up with His firm grasp out of doubt and despair and into the protection of His merciful arms. See those same lessons of Peter in your life as well. Look at your Savior’s hands – they are hands that protect!