Work, rest, and the rest of our lives
Proper 11B | Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
There is something deceptive in our reading of the gospel this morning. Nothing sinister or conniving. Nobody is trying to pull anything over. It’s just, deceptively quaint-sounding given the context. Given the subject matter at hand.
It is deceptive, like the eye of a storm. We think things are normal, like it is all over, but really, we’re only halfway through it.
Now, storms aren’t bad—they are forces of nature, weather patterns that whip through the surface of the planet. We just happen to be in their path sometimes.
And really, I don’t want to belabor the storm analogy itself. I want us to compare this seemingly calm moment to what it is supposed to be: a time of rest.
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