THE NINTH WAVE

                        THE NINTH WAVE

                       The Ninth Wave painted in 1850 Crimea, Russia
                                         Hovhannes Aivazovsky
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The title is a sailing expression referring to a "wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves."  It depicts people facing death after a storm at sea.
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The painting foreshadowed the coming of the Crimean war of 1853, which resulted in 753,638 deaths of the total 1,492,132 combatants.  The assessment of historian A. J. P. Taylor is, "Mutual fear, not mutual aggression, caused the Crimean war."
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I'm praying that God's love, not man's fear saves us from our shipwreck.
“There is no fear in love.  But perfect love drives out fear," 1 John 4:18.