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Here's a quick retelling of the story (read it when you get a chance because it is a good story):
The story takes place after Christ's death on the cross. So the disciples are alone. Peter decides to go fishing and others decide to go with him. They don't catch anything throughout the night. Come morning they see a person standing on the shore and the person asks them about their catch. He tells them to cast their nets over the right side of the boat and they catch a lot of fish. Then, the disciple that Jesus loves :) says, 'that is it the Lord'! Peter jumps out of the boat. :) The rest of the guys bring the fish in the nets to the shore. Jesus makes them breakfast.
So many things in this chapter just fill my heart to the brim.
Jesus makes them breakfast. :)
Peter jumps out of the boat. :)
The disciple who Jesus loved. :)
Peter counted the fish. :)
Ann is the one who brought me the knowledge (although it states it multiple times in our Bible) that we are to count our blessings - all of our blessings, good and bad ones. Ann counts blessings. Peter counts fish. :) BLESSINGS!
This chapter of John 21 ends with this:
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen
(All the blessings that have been given.) :)
As for Ann's post . . . she speaks of her Mothers pain. But before she got to her Mothers pain she spoke of Peter's, "Peter, the failure, the reject, the broken" and her Mother, "A child abused. A wife replaced. A mother broken."
Of course, I went to my pain while reading her story. I went back to all of the rejection and pain throughout my life and you know what? I still smile. God must have placed His love in me from the beginning because through all of the dark nights and days I just knew I was loved. I just knew.
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