This week’s Gospel reading is Matthew’s account of Jesus doing the impossible: walking on water. Peter asks to join him on the water, and when he looks down, sinks, Jesus says incredulously, “you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
(see also: Litany for Solitude)
Western civilization has overcivilized our imaginations. We are so stuck in our economic and political status quo that we consider - have been conditioned by powers that benefit from it to consider - a better world to be impossible. Our apathy and lack of imagination are well on display in this current moment.
Will we revise our expectations? Will we do the impossible? Will we bring the Commonwealth of Heaven, to which Jesus so often referred and on which he staked his reputation and actions, here to earth, following in his imaginative footsteps?
God, we know that we are programmed and conditioned -
By society and culture,
By religion and expectation -
To distinguish the possible from the impossible.