Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)

Dragon of Chaos

hard make out this cosmic horror

shimmering,

multiheaded,

flows stormy sea

if make out: terror

the more we look at, might horrifying and confusing it is

hebrew name for sea close legends of dragon leviathan

Old Testament God alone tramples sea

hovers chaos and brings order

formless twisting nether seas of reality

by His word, Logos he shapes reality he made

Greeks rediscovered primordial truth

chaos of change ordered by the Logos,

the divine word subjects every last drop of chaos

the more the chaos, the more ordered

Ask why faith in high regard?

besides it being a product of love to hold something as true without intellectual certainty

it domesticates the sea of chaos

makes it solid land

If look in light of faith

everything find a proper order

But only in light of the ordering of faith.

if turn look at raging dragon of chaos itself, then sink

like peter turning away from Christ and noticing the noise of the world which is the sea and sinking like his name sake suggests: a rock

Difficulty

So easy is it to think we need to focus on life and not Christ

if we do not focus on wind

waves

storm

surely we will sink

but the reality is we will better stay afloat by focusing on Christ, the Good

like Peter if focus on the earthy worries ironically the worries consume us

first and foremost

cast out fear and worry

focus on Him

Christ calls us to tread over the stormy sea in Him

requires faith

ignore the disquiet of the waves of life

not sheer force of will,

not annihilation of mind

but thru faith that all is ordered by God and will grasp those from the depths who will to come to him

By appearance comes at 4th watch, and the salvation brings more apparent terror:

already near drowning and now an aspect of death appears: a ghost!

like Isaac, Joseph, Job, Lazarus, and most particularly himself

frees at last minute after an even mroe trial of appearances

The louder the storm of your soul, the more opportunity for clear faith and the triumph of the ordering peace of logos

for if you hear and see the sea you are to trample more loudly, the easier it is to make out what you are to trample.

Notes:

Me

the more attacked by dragon of distress and fear, greater opportunity for order

enemy often strikes where he is most fearful

Greek doesnt say it is I, it say I AM (ego eimi), tetragrammaton

hovers over the waters of chaos (God)

comes to them in distress as I Am (like to Moses)

Seeing terrors and takes mind off God, then sink

letting distractions and earthly obligation take hold

Commentators:

Erasmo

Yam, related to chaos dragon

God brings order out of Chaos by Logos (Jewish revelation b4 Greeks, Greek philosophy discovers this truth, most manifest in Christ)

deliberately allows fear b4 coming

especially up to point seems too late (Lazarus, Job, Joseph, Isaac, especially self)

4th watch militarily then means it had been all night

[Chrysostom, in final victory gets even more fearful: ghost]

often only utterly weak learn of reality of their utter insufficieny

Peter 2 minded:

faith but worldly focus

half trust