Dear God,
I honestly really like church; it's a stimulating atmosphere. I suppose I should thank our parish priest for that: he's amazing :)
Anyway, this is my interpretation of the Walking on Water scene (This is strange because I'm always standing at the doors of the religion and defending it, and questioning any insults or misconceptions; I never really come inside it to question it).
The water is supposed to represent all that is a slippery slope: all the thoughts that can lead you to question things you really don't want to question (or else you'll find yourself dangling from the edge of the cliff that is your faith - one just has to accept that one doesn't have all the answers).
Outside the water is all that is right and good. All the comfort of being a Christian.
When Jesus told Peter to come out into the waters, He was really telling him to come and live in the world with so many different opinions, skeptics, and self-confident non-believers.
Jesus told Peter that if he kept his eye on the prize (Jesus), he would be able to walk on that water without falling into doubts and existential crises...
The world is like the water; not drowning is a challenge in itself, but walking on water?
If you want to survive in this world, you'll learn how to swim; if you think that this is too much ado, and you just trust in the Lord, then you can make it: just keep your eye on the Prize (Jesus).
How was that? I even made a pictorial representation (this is probably because my father rejected my conjecture completely while favoring our -admittedly awesome- priest's version (which I have forgotten)
Cheers.
I honestly really like church; it's a stimulating atmosphere. I suppose I should thank our parish priest for that: he's amazing :)
Anyway, this is my interpretation of the Walking on Water scene (This is strange because I'm always standing at the doors of the religion and defending it, and questioning any insults or misconceptions; I never really come inside it to question it).
The water is supposed to represent all that is a slippery slope: all the thoughts that can lead you to question things you really don't want to question (or else you'll find yourself dangling from the edge of the cliff that is your faith - one just has to accept that one doesn't have all the answers).
Outside the water is all that is right and good. All the comfort of being a Christian.
When Jesus told Peter to come out into the waters, He was really telling him to come and live in the world with so many different opinions, skeptics, and self-confident non-believers.
Jesus told Peter that if he kept his eye on the prize (Jesus), he would be able to walk on that water without falling into doubts and existential crises...
The world is like the water; not drowning is a challenge in itself, but walking on water?
If you want to survive in this world, you'll learn how to swim; if you think that this is too much ado, and you just trust in the Lord, then you can make it: just keep your eye on the Prize (Jesus).
How was that? I even made a pictorial representation (this is probably because my father rejected my conjecture completely while favoring our -admittedly awesome- priest's version (which I have forgotten)
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| The world is like water you can sink into, but keeping your eyes on Jesus will help you like it helped Peter |
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