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tomicscomics · 8 months
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08/11/2023
Eastern Orthodox Shark Week.
JOKE-OGRAPHY: This comic features a famous episode from the Bible where Jesus walks on water to get to His disciples' boat, which is stuck in a storm.  In this cartoon, however, Jesus is accompanied by a new disciple, a megalodon (giant shark) named Mary.  He calls her "Mary Megalodon," which sounds like "Mary Magdalene," another of Jesus's loyal disciples (the woman who's stowed away in the last panel).  Mary Megalodon is not actually in the canonical books of the Bible.
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one-time-i-dreamt · 5 months
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I saw Bigfoot walking on water.
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many-sparrows · 7 months
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I'm thinking about the story of Jesus and Peter walking on the water, which we read this past Sunday (Matthew 14). Growing up I learned it as a cautionary tale. I don't know if I was actually taught this or if it's just how I read it but. Don't be like Peter; don't start wavering once you've made your declaration of faith, or else you will begin to sink. Looking at this story now, it has so much more hope. First of all, he is the only one to get out of the boat. The others can't even move against their fear, and eventually Peter will be rewarded for this boldness. And once he is out on the water, amidst impossible circumstances, he begins to doubt. But Christ pulls him up again. Before he chides Peter, he pulls him to the surface. Then I imagine him chuckling and saying, "Oh Peter. You have no reason to fear, for I am always here." This story does not say "strangle your doubts unless you want to drown." It says that when we find ourselves in situations that we can't believe and naturally begin to doubt, Christ will be there to catch us. It is not your job, or indeed within your ability, to control your faith. Instead, as it changes, know that Christ is there with you, to scoop you back up. Lean not on your own understanding, do not make the sturdiness of your faith an idol. Instead, remember how much a small, mustard sized faith can do, and keep walking.
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hotsauceduds · 5 months
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Soukoku !
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webdiggerxxx · 21 days
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꧁★꧂
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lilacthebooklover · 4 days
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COOKIE JESUS REAL
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God and Disney.
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illustratus · 1 year
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Walking on Water by Ivan Aivazovsky
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momentsbeforemass · 8 months
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I can't
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Think about the worst times in your life.
The very worst.
I don’t mean trying to sort out which moments were the objectively worst times in your life. I’m not asking you to rank horrible things.
This isn’t about figuring out some sort of scale. Or putting labels on where divorce ranks versus cancer versus becoming homeless versus death versus mental illness versus domestic violence versus losing the fight with your addiction.
And please do not compare your worst moments to someone else’s worst moments. Comparing who had it worse is waste of time.
What I want you to think about is personal. The specific facts of your worst moments aren’t that important. The important part is your personal experience.
This is about when life punches down. On you.
The times in life that are the worst for you. Because they hit you the hardest.
For most of us, myself included, the times in life that hit us the hardest are the ones where we get lost in them. Where you and I get focused on whatever it is we’re dealing with. Whatever it is that’s punching down on us. Whatever we’re trying to get through.
But there’s something else that must be said.
However objectively bad something really is, there is no situation in life that you and I cannot make worse for ourselves – by focusing on it, to the point that we get lost in it.
But it’s hard not to do that. Especially when it’s something that we’ve told ourselves “I can’t” about.
There are a lot of things in life that we say “I can’t” about. “I can’t do this.” “I can’t go on without them.” “I can’t take this anymore.”
And we say it in different ways. “I’m not going to make it.” “I’ll never get through this.” “It’s not going to happen.”
Those are just some of the ways that you and I say, “I can’t.”
And that is what we’re seeing in today’s Gospel. When Peter steps out of the boat.
Focused on Jesus, Peter starts off doing what Jesus asks him to do.
And for one, brief, shining moment, Peter is actually doing it.
Then Peter takes his eyes off Jesus. Everything falls apart. And Jesus has to save Peter.
And you’re thinking, “that’s a miracle, what does that have to do with the worst moments in my life?”
Everything, as it turns out. Because Peter is just like us.
Where does it all change for Peter? It all changes right here. Right in the middle of a miracle, when Peter says to himself, “I can’t do this.”
That is the turning point.
Peter quits focusing on Jesus. Peter quits filling his heart with Jesus and His simple command, “Come.”
Peter starts focusing on the wind and the waves. Peter starts filling his head and his heart with “I can’t.”
That’s when it all falls apart.
It all falls apart, because Peter has greater faith in “I can’t” than he has in God’s own Son.
Peter trusts “I can’t” more than he trusts God.
I want you to get out your missals. Turn to today’s Gospel reading.
Scan today’s Gospel with me. When did the wind and the waves die down?
That’s right. It say it right there. “After they got into the boat.”
Wait. What?
“After they got into the boat.”
The wind and the waves don’t die down until after Jesus rescues Peter.
The whole time Peter is focused on Jesus? The whole time Peter is walking on the water? In the middle of the miracle, the wind and the waves are still there.
Nowhere in the Gospel does it say, “and the sea became calm when Peter stepped out of the boat.”
You can look for it. Tell me after Mass if you find it.
As he walks towards Jesus on the water, Peter is still dealing with the wind. Peter is still dealing with the waves.
Peter isn’t ignoring them. But he isn’t focused on them either. His shoes may be wet, but Peter is focused on Jesus.
It’s only when Peter stops focusing on Jesus, and gets lost in what he’s dealing with? That is when it all falls apart. Because Peter is just like us.
So here’s our roadmap. And our choice.
Deal with what you need to deal with – and it may be hard stuff, stuff you’ve told yourself “I can’t” about. But keep your focus on Jesus. And Jesus will see you through.
Or take your focus off Jesus. Fill yourself with “I can’t.” Focus on whatever you’re dealing with, to the point that you get lost in it.
Until you end up trusting “I can’t” more than you trust God.
But know this – even if you do take your eyes off Jesus? Jesus still has His eyes on you.
Even if you do fill yourself with “I can’t?” Jesus still says “you can.”
Jesus is waiting to help you. Just like He was with Peter.
Jesus will see you through it. Just like He did with Peter.
All you have to do is ask.
Don’t trust “I can’t” more than you trust God.
Sunday’s Readings
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Jesus geht auf dem Meer - Bibel von Gustave Dore (Undatiert, )
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dramoor · 4 days
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(Via etsy)
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coffeedealer07 · 7 months
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I feel like danny would prank people by walking on water
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pink-alchemy · 6 days
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