Finding The Extraordinary In The Ordinary
TUE EP Reflection 012621 (Is 48: 12-21; Mark 6:1-13) “ Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!’ They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split open the rock and the water gushed out .” These verses in Isaiah are about the deliverance of God's people out of their captivity in Babylon. Somehow, I am personally drawn to these verses, because they remind me of a time in my life when I wondered if God was with me. When the situation got so bad, I questioned if God knew this or even cared [I guess I required too much expectation of God, less of myself]. I think I must have been in Babylon or Chaldea in my head according to these verses. This is a kind of place you do not want to be: a place of despair, like when you have no inkling that your doctor understands what is going on a...