What a miraculous catch! Even their fishing tools, their ordinary nets, suddenly had extraordinary limit.

With this we realize our friendship with silence and solitude is also strained. We become detached from our inmost selves and become fragmented without a center.

God’s love, the Bible teaches us, is bigger, wider and deeper than we could imagine. Its highest expression is Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.

Being lost can be caused by a lack of clarity in matters of direction. We are lost when we don’t know where we are or where we’re going.

Many of David’s Psalms express his anguished cry for help as a fugitive on the run.

“Rejoice in the Lord always; Again I say rejoice! Let your forbearing spirit be known to all men.

And they raised their voices saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” – Luke 17:13