Going Fishing as an Alternative to Dying Inside
Greetings, Friends and Neighbors and Family out there in Internet Land! In the natural course of things, we all encounter pain. Physical pain is something I am familiar with, but it deserves its' own separate post, if not a SERIES of posts. This post is about the mental/emotional/spiritual pain that we experience, and it's just as inevitable as the physical kind. Whether it's a result of Happenings, or neuro-chemistry gone bad, we all have to deal with it somehow, or we withdraw from others and die inside. One guy decided to deal with it by going fishing. John 21:3 Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.” Jesus meets with Peter, John, & company on the shore, in the same way that He had met them when He first called them. Up to this point, Peter hadn't seen Jesus after the Resurrection, and he was discouraged. So he goes back to doing what he knew how to do, before Jesus had called him: fishing. Consider: He's riding on top, one of Jesus' closest friends, then...