This gospel passage that we have just heard may be among the most haunting in all of scripture. It has a lot to say about fear, about faith, about trust — about daring to do the impossible. I would like to look at just six words in the middle of this passage – six words that can change our lives. They loom large in this gospel – and across everything we understand as Catholic Christians. It is one simple phrase: “Peter got out of the boat”.
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The gospel we just heard has some surprising comparisons to the Kingdom of God – a kingdom that is not measured in acres, or miles, or limited by any kind of geography we might imagine. It is a kingdom, in fact, whose size could be small enough to hold in your hand or bury in a field. What matters is not its size. What matters is its worth. The gospel assures us: it is a rare treasure, as precious as a pearl.
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One of the great questions found in literature, philosophy, and in the history of ideas is the fact that our life is a mixture of good and evil. We are imperfect people living in an imperfect world. Everywhere we look we find this strange mixture of what’s right and what’s wrong. Why there is evil?
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“A Sower went out to sow…” Those simple words begin one of the most memorable parables in the gospel – a story that has much to teach us not only about gardening and growing, but also about listening; Listening to the Word of God; Being receptive to it; Being open to it. That can be hard to do, when there is so much noise in the world distracting us from God and trying to drown out His Word. But there is something striking and very hopeful about this parable that I would like all of us to consider today.
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