When you grow old ...

Morning: Psalms 148, 149, 150; Daniel 4:1-18; I Peter 4:7-11

Evening: Psalms 114, 115; John 21:15-25

Jesus encourages Peter to continue on the path, even following failure ... He reminds Peter that in youth, you decide what you do and when; but when you grow old, you have obligations, though you might not want them.  Like so much of Jesus’s teaching, this is counter-cultural ... Life is supposed to get easier with age, isn’t it?  But instead, Jesus seems to be saying: With age, you have skill and experience to compensate for having less energy and youthful zeal ... and there are the young ones to care for ... So, “Tend my lambs,” says Jesus.

[Apologies for yesterday’s missed reflection ... Who imagined 20 years ago how challenging a day without a computer might become?!]