Holy Wednesday.
It’s the time when Simon is being cornered by the Romans. He faced a situation of who’s to favour, his fellow fishermen or the Romans whom he owe a lot. He chose the first yet his fellow didn’t believe him. Same happened to Matthew that he has to obey Roman’s order of spying Simon. Both of these men have good hearts yet sometimes, when they face something that has a lot of at stake, their conscience is fighting against their intellect. And most of the time, they fall from the trap. This normally happens with anyone, anywhere and most of the times in our lives. And sometimes, we really don’t know what would be the best thing to choose. It’s hard but most of the times, we can only get the answers after the test. And from that, it depends on ours how we will take the lessons afterwards. And how we will take the lessons is usually what matters most over what should have been our choice in the first place.
There is this Dominus’ lines that caught my attention too – “The fruit here is incredible. Everything that grows here is immaculate except the people. You’re such a miserable lot. You worship one God, and yet, you’re all divided. People complain we Romans run the world, but I know a dirty secret. You people want to be ruled. You want an excuse to complain. It’s part of your nature.” After hearing these words, I just thought, isn’t making sense? What do you think?
I’ve also seen how Eden, Simon’s wife, is an image of a strong, full of faith woman when she says these words to Simon while they’re having a fight about Eema to stay with them while she’s sick – “You can’t tell me what I can or can’t do. You have had your eyes closed around here, and God is with me, even if you aren’t.” How she fought for herself and communicated her views towards her husband doesn’t degraded Simon yet she appears to be firm with her words. Moreover, her words could have opened Simon’s eyes only if he chose to be and open his heart too.
With Jesus’ parable about the fishnet as He says, “This net gathers fish. All kinds of fish”, I think is a good way to catch Simon’s attention as Jesus uses the parable close to Simon’s situation. This is brilliant. I think, that’s a smart way to catch someone’s attention. When you have something to say to the people or a person you want the attention focused on what you wanted to say, you go and be with their situation so they know you are with them and with that, you got their ears, all ears. And I guess, this is how Jesus communicates with most of the crowd and people he may come in contact with. With His way of communicating with people, He was able to gather them, every kind of people.
My Choice 