We want to be in control so that we can pretend that we are in charge. We are like the fish in the aquarium. We have restricted our world unnecessarily. We set our own divider in our lives. We have made our worlds small enough that we can carry on with the illusion that we are in charge.
Miracles give witness to the power of the holy to break into our regular, everyday world.
The sacred is there whether we acknowledge it or not. And if we choose to ignore it or even to resist it, the power of the holy will break into the small worlds we have created for ourselves. T he gospel lesson reminds us of our resistance to the manifestation of the power of the holy. Opposition arises from a most unlikely source, the religious institution. The first objection to Jesus healing comes from the leader of the synagogue.