Have you ever stayed up all night? I have many times in my life. When younger I would stay up with friends talking. Now as an adult there are times that the worries of life keep me up. Night times seems like a wonderful time for thinking and reflection.
In the scripture for Sunday (Luke 5:1-11) the disciples had stayed up all night. Their reason was not that they could not but that they would not. They stayed up working, trying to finally get a catch. Without one they would not be able to make a living.
When Jesus told them to go back out and to pull down their nets they were hesitant. "We've done that already. In fact we have spent all night attempting to get a catch and were not successful." Yet, they went out and miraculously they caught more fish than they handle.
We do the same thing. Time after time we try to do things our way and it fails. We think we have it under control. Failure comes time after time. Jesus comes and asks us again. This time is different for Jesus is asking us to trust. If we do we, like the disciples, will be surprised! The catch will be more than we can handle. It is then that we call others on the same journey for help and support. We need them and they need us as we go about being "fishers of people."
Thanks be to God!
Peace,
Juan
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