PIPER A CRUX TO DEEPEN FAITH AND CHRIST
Piper an Oscar winning animated short
film for the year 2017 has been whats apped by my friend Anusha as I was
sharing with her the stress and the struggles I face in my life. The plot of
the story depicts how a young sand piper overcomes its challenges to find food
at the sea shore. The first day as the young sand piper search the food with
its mother the tide on the sea shore has heaved him away. Cataclysmic
experience at the sea shore petrified the young sand piper and roosted him in
the nest. On a fine morning a hermit crab invites the young sand piper to ferret
the food at the sea shore. Reprising the jittery experience the piper started
its jaunt with the hermit crab to the seashore having anxiety in the mind.
Unfortunately the tide was surging and at this juncture the astute young sand
piper looked the hermit crab and he found that the hermit crab hides him in the
sand. The young sand piper emulates the same. As the water flows over the sand
piper it opens its eye and finds the beauty of the sea. As the sand piper
realises the clinch in his daring step and it becomes the most intrepid piper
to seek food on the sea shore even during strong tides. Yes to be Different and Daring one need to go
deep. And so Jesuits the largest and leading religious order in the Catholic
Church had its tagline for their 36th General Synaxis as “Row Into
Deep,” Albert Einstein adds the same flavor as he tweets “A ship is always safe
at the shore - but that is not what it is built for.” A classical scene
portrayed in the gospel of John chapter 21 verses 1 to 6 in which the worth of
rowing deep is depicted, the disciple
were fishing throughout the night but they could not cast a single fish. The
scenario changes up and down as Jesus enters to the frame. Jesus utters them
cast your net deeper. It is from the same sea shore where they could collect
fishes which makes them in demanding to pull out their net. Peter Knowing the in and out of the fishing has
sensed that dark like a needle in a haystack. A savvy fisherman knows the availability
of the fish is in the deep sea. Casting
net at the periphery of the sea sketches Peter’s character and his faith. He
was not sure of the resurrection of Christ and thus leaves for fishing. Being
in the fringe of your faith you achieve nothing. Jesus did not tell Peter and
his crew to change the sea in order to get more fish but demanded them to cast
it into deep and it would be the climax of that episode. Of course deepening
our faith will help us to face the challenges and changes; and once you
experience the beauty of rowing deep like the sand piper in the short film will
brace us to paint the life red.I feel the cry of St. Thomas in the
Gospel of John chapter 20 vesicle 25 may not become on second thought here. He
jousts with disciples in bereft and uttered; unless I see the mark of the nails
in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his
side, I will not believe. And he soothes the Mantra out of blue, when he sees
the risen Christ which every Christian should keep in his heart and mind, “My
Lord and My God.” Experiencing the gashes of Christ souped him up to be the radical
disciple of Christ. Let us roll up our sleeves to row into deep to experience Christ
and the Challenges of Being a Christian. And let me break the ice with the
tongue of Christ; “those who want to follow me take up ones own daily cross and
follow me.” Yes the Injuries and lesions of my life can only deepen Christ in
my life… Amen.
