Might just be the most faithful thing you can do.
Spending time in the places where you feel most at home. Relating to those people that feel like your people. Doing the tasks that you are experienced in accomplishing. Simply being who you are.
As Thomas Merton puts it:
“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying God. It ‘consents,’ so to speak, to God’s creative love… a tree imitates God by being a tree… The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.”
New Seeds of Contemplation
When Peter said, “I’m going out to fish,” and his friends said, “We’ll go with you,” they were not being faithless. What would have been faithless would have been to continue to cower behind locked doors. What would have been faithless would have been to simply wait around for Jesus to miraculously walk through walls again. What would have been faithless would have been to sit around in some kind of pseudo-spiritual prayer meeting.
Instead, what was faithful was going fishing. Why? Simply because they were fishermen.
Waiting for Jesus to show up doesn’t mean sitting idle. Expecting Jesus to show up is not meant to be a distraction from daily life. Hoping that Jesus will show up doesn’t mean quitting your day job.
After all, it is in the humdrum, banal grind of living that Jesus most often makes himself known.
