Deep sea fishing

My fellow lector M injured her shoulder and she called me late yesterday evening to ask me to exchange duty with her. So, once again, I have to wake up at 6 am this morning.

As usual, if I have to do that, I will be having nightmares and sleepless nights. I think I woke up every 1 hour to check the time. *roll eyes* However, the good thing is when I am having problems falling asleep, my mind will be extra imaginative.

Few days ago, I heard a homily from Father FA about Simon the fisherman. When Father FA told us about Jesus preaching and the crowd growing, I suddenly have political ceramahs in my mind. The crowd grew so big, Jesus decided to hop onto Simon Peter’s boat to avoid the crowd. LOL, to avoid getting trampled, I suppose. As you see, Jesus wasn’t surrounded by bodyguards but was just starting His ministry and on His way to pick up the 12 disciples.

Back to Simon, he was just a ’smelly fisherman’ (an example given by Father Fabian) with little education, I guess. So, when Jesus rewarded Simon and his cousins with an abudant catch of fishes, Simon felt unworthy and asked Jesus, “Leave me, Lord. I am a sinner.” Of course, Jesus didn’t. He said He will make them fisher of men.

So, how does deep sea fishing comes into my blog title? I imagine myself to be the unworthy, sinner that Simon Peter was. But since I already know Jesus as the miracle man, I shall not be satisfied with fishing by the shore. I want to venture in deep sea, fishing for sharks.

I have always told people who accepts my style of blogging this - “I am not after the 99. I am looking for the 1.” These people do not care if my blog postings portray ‘non-Christian-y’ way of living or I don’t show good examples. They understand. They know my ‘deep sea fishing’ adventure. For what good is it to please the 99 pious holy-moly Christians who spew Bible verses whenever they open their mouths when I cannot get the one, single, lonely, broken man/woman to trust that Jesus picks the smelly fishermen over the others (the 99)?

It is my birthday today so I shouldn’t be blogging but out there celebrating, whatever that is. However, this analogy of deep sea fisher of men is too good to be kept for the next day. I may forget the whole story.

Woohoo! We are already practising choir. It is only September but then, it is always fun to sing Joy to the World, O Come all ye faithful, Mistletoe and Wine and etc.