Question: In a recent survey, this was the most common item to be found in the junk drawer. What is it?
Answer: Rubber bands!
Do you have rubber bands in your junk drawer? Looks like many of us have this in common with each other.
Another thing we all have in common is that we all fail, make mistakes, and miss the mark in many ways. At the same time, Jesus wants to meet us in our failures and restore us so we can share the same kind of grace with all those around us. In today’s passage we’ll see how Jesus meets His disciple Peter in his failures and how that give us hope too. We participate together today in the ancient Jewish practice of Midrash, as we consider the question, “What Kind of God… Meets Us in Our Failures?”