Monday, February 4, 2002
Monday, February 4, 2002
As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called
Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen. And he
said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fish for people."
How come Simon Peter instantaneously converted from a fisher of fish to a fisher of people?
How can a person make such a momentous life decision with such little deliberation? Maybe
Jesus was what Simon had dream about during all of those long hours of fishing.
(Matthew 4.18-19
NRSV)
You may have read about a man in California who has to be the worst bank robber in history.
He went into a Bank of America in San Francisco and wrote out a stick up note on the back of
a deposit slip. He got in line to present his note to the teller, but while he was in line he started
thinking that maybe somebody saw him writing the stick up note. Maybe they were calling the
police right now. So he decided to get out of line and go across the street to the Wells-Fargo
bank. He had to wait in line there, too, but finally he got up to a cashier and presented her with
the note. The cashier could tell that the man didn't have all his oars in the water, if you know
what I mean. That he was a few fries short of a Happy Meal, so she said to him, "I'm sorry, but
we can't take stick up notes written on Bank of America deposit slips. You will have to get back
in line and write out another note on one of our slips." Well, the man was too lazy to write two
stick up notes in one day so he went back across the street to the Bank of America and got in
line there--and that's exactly where the police found him a few minutes later. That is
supposedly a true story. Maybe this would-be hold-up man was in the wrong business. Maybe
Simon the fisherman was in the wrong business as well.
Dear Jesus, may my dreams be of you, as you continue to give meaning and purpose to all
that I do. Amen.
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