{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Small Wonders","title":"Summerbell","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":983,"description":"The Summerbell Window - a beautiful stained glass window - sits in the Holy Trinity Church in Millers Point, Sydney.\nIt's not like the other windows: it shows a stormy sea, with Jesus calming the tempest.\nIt commemorates the loss of the Yarra Yarra - a steamer captained by William Geoge Summerbell, the namesake of the window - which disappeared on the morning of the 15th of July 1877, after encountering a terrible storm off the coast of Newcastle.\nWitness to the tragedy was Williams's father, Thomas.\n\nIt was the following year that the Summerbell Window was erected in Holy Trinity Church.\nJesus didn't calm this storm, nor did He walk on water that morning.\nThe window itself acknowledges this.\n\"Save me Oh God, for the waters have come into my soul.\"\nThe storms we face are real, and the grief we encounter can be like an unrelenting flood.\nA storm at sea can bring about an internal storm of pain.\nBut knowledge of the truth - of God - can help us face this storm in a new light.\nThe Psalms attest to this.\nSave me, O God,\n for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths,where there is no foothold.\nI have come into the deep waters;\nthe floods engulf me.\n I am worn out calling for help;my throat is parched.\nMy eyes fail,\nlooking for my God.\nYet at the same time:\nI will praise God’s name in song\nand glorify him with thanksgiving.\nThis will please the\nLord more than an ox,\nmore than a bull with its horns and hoovesThe poor will see and be glad—you who seek God, may your hearts live!\nThe Lord hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.\nPsalm 69: 1-3, 30-33","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/dmK8bnSXogSdA0JzLpcbWT0T8m3Qf0pVnc905HRW-Cg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5MjQ0LzE2NDc5/OTAzNDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}