Some thoughts on today's Gospel...

In listening to Father Robert Barron's homily on today's Gospel reading, he made some incredibly insightful points that I couldn't agree with more. "Duc in Altum"..."Put out into the deep..." That is where Christ calls each one of us to go with him. He doesn't stay close to the shore, because that is not where we need to be. We've been there - we've done it our way, over and over again. We need to go where we are not, as St. John of the Cross says, "To get to where you are not, you mus pass through where you are not." We are naturally afraid, but this is the course in which Jesus leads us. It is the road less traveled, and it is indeed dangerous in a sense. Paul called the Gospel δύναμις (dunamis) - "powerful." We get "dynamite" from this word. And that's what a relationship with Christ is like - it's dynamite. It rocks our world - it pulls us out of our comfort zone where we clutch our favorite sins. And it calls us to sail away from our familiar shores into the unknown. But will we dare to set sail once he gets into our boat?