Today’s Scripture Reading (October
27, 2014): John 21
I recently
read an article on the “Seven Unexpected Perks of Being Married.” The article
was written by a woman, so admittedly there were few perks for those of us who
aren’t female. The advantages included a lot of mundane things like a division
of household tasks (so that the one partner doesn’t have to do all the tasks
that they loathe doing), a closet full of comfy oversized clothes (obviously a
woman thing, no one wants to see me in my wife’s clothes and there is no way
that it would be comfy) and being able to go dutch on dates. It also apparently
meant that food is never wasted, the guy is always willing finish the fries
(but in my experience seldom the salad.)
There is
something so wonderfully mundane about this passage that it seems hard to believe
that this is resurrection passage. There are no lights going off and no walls
being walked through. There is a miraculous catch of fish, but Jesus doesn’t
disappear suddenly like he did when the disciples broke bread with him in Emmaus.
Just an invitation to breakfast – and a chance for a bunch of friends to sit
and catch up.
The Bible
doesn’t tell us if there were any leftovers from breakfast (with 153 fish I
suspect that there was.) But it is apparent that the disciples had a chance to
just spend some quality time with Jesus. The breakfast might have almost seemed
something that I am not sure that the disciples had experienced for quite a
while – it was almost normal.
And it
underlines something that I think that we sometimes miss, but that we really shouldn’t.
God doesn’t just inhabit the extraordinary moments of our lives. He isn’t
located in just in the miracles that we experience and he doesn’t only live in
the moments that we spend in church. The reality that we need to understand is
that God inhabits the wonderfully mundane moments of our lives. He even
inhabits our breakfasts.
Tomorrow’s Scripture Reading: Acts 1
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