How to walk on water
Last week we were studying the text where not just Jesus but also Peter walk on water.
I think all of us want to walk on water. What a thrill.
Many of you practiced walking on water (pictures later in this newsletter) and we also got our imaginations going looking at pictures of waterskiing.
This reminded me of a poem about poems! This is by noted poet Billy Collins:
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore. ...
The poem continues (see link below).
The poem is about joy and discovery and how the poet's students often miss the point of poetry's adventure!
Maybe we are also called to practice faith not as a walk or slog but as an opportunity to waterski across a day or situation--Trusting the motorboat of call or the Tug of the Spirit. The goodness of God is there to encourage us to risk and to love our lives - even when the waves come. Anything can be an adventure in deepening understanding and learning to find promise.
The rest of the short poem can be found here:
Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins poetry foundation
Grace & peace, Pastor Sarah
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