On St. Patrick's Day, I went to Mass to honor the feast day of this great Christian missionary to the Celts. (I'm a little Irish me-self.) The homily that was given really hit home and kind of goes along with the guerrilla story that I told not too long ago.
Father was talking about how Christ told Peter and Andrew to cast the net on the other side. Keep in mind that they had been fishing all night and it was now daytime. They had caught nothing and they were tired and smelly and irritable. But, they acquiesced to his request. And they put their net on the other side.
They caught the biggest catch in broad daylight that anyone could have imagined. Sometimes we are asked, not told, to have some faith and cast our nets on the other side. What we think is not the same as what God knows. We could argue with Him for a bit and we think that He might be a little crazy telling us to do one thing when we surely know the outcome. Ha.
Do we have that faith to go ahead and listen to God? Can we have faith to know that He knows whats best and what He's doing? I say, absolutely. So go ahead and trust in the Lord. Be open to his requests. Cast your nets on the other side and see what happens.
St. Joseph, Husband of Mary, Pray for us!
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