After being home again for a couple of days, i find that i can now begin to try to process this trip. i have uploaded pictures onto my facebook page and have included some here as well.
i'm sure it will take many more weeks to begin to sort out all the things i was able to see and do while on this trip. memories that i will carry with me forever. already i am able to put some of my experiences to use, as i am preaching this weekend on Jesus' call to Peter, James and John to discipleship while they were fishing on the Sea of Galilee. How wonderful to be able to connect the story in scripture to my own experience of being on a boat in that very place! I find that I have developed a new appreciation of the challenge that being called to "come, and follow" meant to those individuals, and what it means to each of us today.
I'm sure it was hard for Peter, James and John to leave everything: the peace of the sea, the comfort of home, to follow him and become "fishers of people". As I have heard it said, if you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat! How challenging that sometimes is....
Lord, help me get out of the boat, and follow.
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