Episode Transcript:
One of my favorite stories in the Gospels occurs in Mark chapter four, where Jesus is teaching along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. And as he's teaching, the crowd begins to grow. And so he moves from teaching on the shore to sitting on a boat just over the shore. Now, that's an important detail in the story to me, because as the task he's teaching the crowd, as the task starts to become overwhelming, he does not check out of the task.
It is not stop the task, but he makes an adjustment that allows and successfully complete the task. I think that's a great lesson for us in parenting, is that on days when it becomes overwhelming that we need to, we don't check out, but we need to make adjustment that allow us to successfully do what we need to do.
But then at the end of the chapter, when he's done doing some teaching, he says to his disciples, Come, let's go to the other side of the lake. And I love that because at the end of the task, when he has done the thing that he is being asked to do, he wants to go to the other side of the lake with a small group of people that he has an intimate relationship with.
And so the lesson there for us is that we need to have people that we are in relationship with, that we can go to the other side of the lake and then we need to have something on the other side of the lake. And so it might not be a physical lake, it might be a weekend at a lake house or something like that.
But there has to be something on the other side of the lake for you, something that brings you peace, something that brings you joy and then allows you to go back to that first chore and reengage the task like you've been asked to do.
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