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Sometimes I need to read my own stuff!

Last month, my friend Father Hanh challenged me to “go deeper” with the metaphor of Luke 5.4:

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” (NIV)

But between last month and now, I didn’t feel as if I went deeper. I completed three house projects, preached twice, meditating on indifference and Psalm 1.1-3 (fruitfulness through meditation), and helped June host two families of kids and grandkids! 

I studied Luke 5.4 again, but I didn’t feel that I got a lot out of it.

When I shared all this with Hanh, including the story I posted yesterday and the six types of fruit/holy moments, he observed, “You did go deeper. You served your family by completing the projects and loving them during their visit. You served your community by sharing the Word with them.”

June reminded me that my rocking a sleeping 8-month-old while his parents packed to leave was a holy moment. 

Do I believe that God is in the ordinariness of life or not? 

Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19.13, 14, NIV)