Walking on Water

A section of Boothbay Harbor's Water Front

"Get out of the boat, Peter...

and walk on water?" 

Really, you say...walk on water?  If you stepped off the dock above and walked out 25 yards, you could look back and see the waterfront as you could not from the wharf.  Don't walk on water--then fine, use a boat!  But the idea is that the real miracle is not walking on water, but a different vision altogether.  Of seeing things from a different perspective.  For some, it does take a miracle for them to see things differently or to believe that there is something like a different vision to be had. 

One of my favorite TS Eliot plays got low marks from critics--The Family Reunion.  In it, I found the essence of a "different vision altogether." 

Happiness is not getting what you want.

Happiness is not getting rid of what you want to get rid of.

Happiness is a different vision altogether.  

Go walk on the water--that's where the miracle is!  Turn around once in a while and see where you have gone.  Sit down where you are and take a close look at where you are. Toss the crystal ball.  The future is made of seeing where you are so that you can realize what direction you can head.  Every boat owner knows that Gospel--"figure out where you are before you motor onto a reef!"

Go ahead.  Get out of the boat!