WHATEVER KIND OF MAN IS THIS?

PRAYER MOMENT Apologies! This is yesterday’s. I struggle to post when not at base                            

Tuesday 1 July 2014  

WHATEVER KIND OF MAN IS THIS?

Pause. Be with the disciples in the boat.

Reading: “The men were astounded and said, “Whatever kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him.” (Matt 8:23-27)

Reflection. We have the impression that in some way the disciples “got used” to Jesus being with him every day. But there were some signs he did that utterly shook them. This is one of them. He “rebuked the winds and the sea” and there was a great calm. So they ask, “who really is he?” We know the answer. He is a man, a human being like us. Yet we have come to know that he has expanded humanity to the point where it becomes divine. Ruth Burrows wrote, “He was fully human because he was divine.” In other words, he opened up humanity to the fullness of its possibilities. Every human being has the possibility for sharing in the divine. Those who have travelled far on this road we call “saints.”     

  

Prayer. Lord Jesus, you have revealed who you are and in doing so have revealed who we are. Help us to stretch ourselves each day to reach out to you who fulfil all our longing. Amen.

David Harold-Barry SJ