Scripture: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
You’ve heard the saying, “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
Let’s just say – life happened a lot for Jesus. None of his vacation plans ever seemed to work out quite the way he intended. He tries to go out into the desert wilderness for a little R&R… the crowds follow him. He tries to take a nice little cruise across the lake… they’re waiting for him on the other side. He couldn’t even go have dinner at one of his disciple’s houses without having to cure an ailing mother-in-law.
If only shutting out the world’s problems for a day were as easy as turning off his i-phone or saying “Sorry, you don’t have an appointment.” Human hurt doesn’t seem to ever give consideration to date-books and office hours. And have you ever noticed, it’s never just one thing at a time? Always seems to be a bunch of things that happen all at once. The weight of your own problems intermingled with other people’s sometimes just seems too much to handle.
