They saw Jesus walking on the sea
and coming near the boat, and they were terrified.
But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
Then they wanted to take him into the boat,
and immediately the boat reached the land
toward which they were going.
—John 6.19-21
The point is not that Jesus “walks on water”
(whatever that means).
He walks on difficulty. Walks through trouble.
He walks, even, over impossibility.
Where he walks is not a little lake, not a great ocean,
but the world, where the Beloved
will not, even in your direst storms,
be remote, but will be there,
walking over it to you, serene, present,
no matter where you are.
It will never be hard for love to get to you.
The point is not miraculous teleportation.
It is that love will get you where you need to go.
When you awake, even terrified,
to the reality that the Beloved is with you,
you are where you were going.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
July 22, 2021