February 3, 2023

Mark 6:14-29

I don’t even know if I should encourage you to read the passage presented to us for meditation today. When I get into these passages sometimes I feel the presence of God, other times i experience peace and comfort but today ——- emptiness. A deep emptiness actually. I cannot understand the brutality of the Romans and certainly do not feel like saying “praise to you Lord Jesus Christ after reading what happened to St. John. I wonder how Jesus felt. I wonder how long it took him before he dusted himself and said “come on now, we must get on with it.” He and his friends went over, took the body of John and buried it. Understandably so some of John’s disciples said “enough!” And buried their dreams as well. Just how to you do life after your anchor, your base is destroyed.

I think you know something about dusting yourself up and getting on with life. How many times have your dreams been dashed and yet you found a way. You reinvented yourself, you cried and went for it. Yes life was different but you found a way.

You know, my grandmother (mama’s mom) is said to have died of a broken heart. She lost her favorite son to a senselessness death but grandmother could not find a way out of her grief. Within a year of Uncle Phillip dying, the family was at the village burying a 40 something year grandmother. This is depressing, I better stop writing.

Find a way out of it my friend.