* Spirit of Jesus pray for me
* Matthew, Peter, Mary, Holy Church pray for me
* Saints pray for me
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+------Zion Atop Galilee's Sea
Zion, your knee injury
weeks ago, like you departing
iconoclastic. Ascending a mountainside
of curses to pray alone. Like your
teammates, coaches, as 12 disciples
huddled together in a boat, nudged from
shores of NCAA-Final-Four-certainty
to drift on basketball’s (Galilee’s) Sea of
Unknowns…Durham’s campus’s
dark-night-grief occluding any hint
of hope’s moon. But 29 points
in your Syracuse return like redress- It
was you walking on the lake (of the
impossible) just before dawn
(of the March Madness tourney) like
Duke’s Savior, stirring fright as a ghost.
And tonight, when you score 50 against
the Bison (and everyone else), like words
of comfort to your team: “Take courage!
It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Come [with
me to the Final Four In Minneapolis]” Like
you extending your hand to Coach K.
------Matthew 14:22-31
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
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