There's a story in the New Testament that I've always found kind of bizarre. I mean, it's

about a miracle. So it's bizarre right there, but that's not what really bothers me about it.

The disciples are going across the Sea of Galilee, heading into the wind, the waves are high,

and they look over and they see Jesus walking to them on the water. He've all heard of this story.

They're walking to the water and they're terrified and they cry out, it's a ghost, but immediately

Jesus spoke to them and He says, take heart, it is I, do not be afraid. Now once they're

fear passes, Peter, who is kind of an excitable guy, he gets excited and he wants to join in the

fund and he says, Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water. And Jesus says, come

ahead. So Peter gets out of the boat and he walks on the water and he comes to Jesus, but when he saw

how either wind was, he got scared and he began to sink and he cried out, Lord save me.

And Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, oh you of little faith,

why did you doubt? Now obviously it's strange that the guy is walking on the water, but it always

gets me about this story is Jesus says, oh you of little faith and I think really the guy, even if

you took one step on water, that would be a lot of faith. Why is Jesus saying that he doesn't have

enough faith when he actually there for a minute was walking on the water? But Jesus was in the

tradition of Hebrew prophets and a lot of what he did, like the Hebrew prophets, the Jewish prophets,

is he would act stuff out as a kind of a story that he was telling. And so everything he did had

double meanings. And it strikes me about this story when I think about it that everybody, all the time,

all of us are walking on water, right? We never know what's going to happen next. We can be hit by a

bolt of lightning, we run over by a car, we can lose everything we love, we can, you know, terrible

things can happen, great things can happen, we just don't know. If you've ever talked to a hypochondriac

and I went through in my youth, I went through a very brief horrible period of hypochondriac,

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