The Rudder

Last night I went to go spend some time with a buddy of mine. As I get to his house, I can't park because there is a toad in the road, and it won't move. Essentially, I have two choices; one is to continue on to my destination, after all, it's days are numbered anyway. or, I can take the time and effort to escort it to safety, and still get to where I was going.



WWJD- What Would Jesus Do. I know it's a silly catch phrase, but think about it for a moment. We started talking about saving the toad, then morphed to the story of Jesus miracle of healing not one, but two distinct women on one of Jesus journey's. Here is this outcast women with a never ending period. She is considered unclean by the customs of the day and avoided like the plague, no wait that's still a thousand years away, like someone with leprosy. She does a desperate act of touching Jesus robe, basically turning the Rabbi unclean as well...But Jesus, testing her faith asks"who touched me?" She boldly speaks out, and Jesus responds by saying "Your faith has healed you, made you clean and you are saved." Wow. talk about religious leaders getting their panties in a wad over that statement. His endgame destination is that he was invited to heal a father's daughter, a seemingly urgent matter. Yet it became all about the journey. You know the end of the story; the 12 year old daughter dies while Jesus is a ways off, But Jesus smiles and says "Nope, shes just sleeping." He gets there, heals her and heads out to his next affection.



It's all about the journey. What we do for work, where we live, what car we drive, what school you attend is not the important issue. Who we affect; our salt and light at each station of life is the real deal.



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