I've been walking on water!

No, honestly, I have!

I was invited by a charismatic friend of mine, so we met up at the allotted time and place and off we went… walking over the surface of the water. And now I am back, a little damp in places, but alive and well to tell the tale.

To explain: I was asked if I wanted to go ‘snow-shoeing’. I figured it was worth a try, and off we went, suited and booted, and it was fantastic; a great way to explore the Canadian snowy wilderness. Where in shoes you would sink up to your waist in snow, with shoe-shoes you rest on the surface.

Why do I make the point about it being ‘walking on water’? Because it seems to me a good  picture of the way we engage when we hear of God doing something that is beyond our understanding. We have a choice. 

At one level you can know that I was walking on snow in special shoes, understand how I was ‘walking on water’ and let it go as a different part of normality.

On the other hand, we can notice the difference in being in a country where the ‘back yard’ is 60 acres and covered in several feet of snow for half the year. Here, in this nation, snow-shoeing is normal and anyone can do it. Jesus brings a new Kingdom, and in that place things are often different. The normal is strange, at first, to us… but it is a world we were created to inhabit.