The need for rest has been built into our very being.

How proud are you when your child does something for the first time.

It was an amazing and sad story to see that the very places that Jesus performed his early miracles had remained unrepentant

So here Jesus sent them out, as lambs among wolves, into the ‘harvest field’.

The disciples wanted Jesus to accompany them to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles.

Us grownups like to complicate things, don’t we?

Even the disciples failed occasionally.

Surely, in the transfiguration of Jesus, the three disciples were privy to a scene unprecedented in the whole sweep of mankind’s history.

So Peter makes this wonderful proclamation that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God.

Sometimes we can be really stupid, even if the truth is staring us in the face.