One Apple A Day #611 - do you walk on water?
"Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. «It's a ghost,» they said, and cried out in fear." — Matthew 14:25-36
Sometimes I fall prey of what I call the "walking on water syndrome".
It happens when I feel that I can walk above the mess of reality. That I have found the answers. That I am awakened.
When I convince myself that I can cross the lake without getting soaked.
I don't know if it ever happened to you.
Maybe it's just a feature of my ego.
Like if I'm talking with someone who has a different perspective on something important. And within that space, I convince myself that I have figured out everything; the situation and the other person. And when that happens, when I take myself out of the mess of reality because I believe I can walk on water, when I do that the connection is gone.
I can see it in their eyes. They look at me as if I'm a ghost.
"The thing to remember is that people act in ways that make sense to them. If something doesn't make sense to you, then you're missing something." — Dave Gray
Thanks to my friend Luca for helping me discover this during one of our walks in the park. I was telling him how sometimes I forget that to deal with the messiness of life, we must be ready to get dirty. And he immediately pointed me to the image of Jesus walking on water.
Image from Wikimedia.