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It’s back to school time. I’m taking Rachel to Nashville right after services tomorrow. Moving her into an apartment this time, until December, and then she goes to England.
And I was just with someone who’s first kid has gone off to college - and my two High Schoolers are getting ready to start Tuesday, and all of it plays together to make for that bittersweet time of fall. It’s seems that more than any other time of the year, this is the time when parents think about all the life change. “I can’t believe little ???? is going to be in ???? grade.”
It’s a time for reflection in a way; because we’ve been so busy raising them that we have missed some of the miracles along the way.
It’s just funny to me because I ran across the disciples doing the same thing in my quiet time this week.
Mark 6:50-52 (Jesus is walking on the water) they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 51 Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, 52 for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.
This is right after Jesus had multiplied the loaves and fishes and fed the multitudes. But this passage here says that they really never got it. They were busy passing out the fish and chips, but they never really got it. Jesus had already done a bunch of miracles and raised the dead, but their hearts were still “hard.” I don’t know what that means, but I think they were just a little clueless to the miracles around them.
And when Jesus shows up and walks on water – somehow they never made the connection that he might be able to do that!
You know, “Oh! It’s a Ghost! I feel like I’m on Scooby Doo!”
No, Shaggy, it’s the guy who just fed thousands of people with a couple of McFish sandwiches!
How did you miss that?
Oh, maybe the same way I do.
Are you so mired down in the middle of the mechanics of it all that you are missing the miracles? In parenting, or any relationship, or especially in ministry? How easy is it to get so busy feeding the multitudes, that you missed the miracle?
Man, there’s a sermon in there somewhere. I do it ALL THE TIME.
Take some time today, and look around! Don’t let your hearts be hard. SEE THE MIRACLE.
Tim
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