Getting out of the boat

       “It’s weird to be a recovering drug addict. It was weird to be a drug addict, but at least I was on drugs.*Laughter* It’s strange sometimes, you know, like I’m doing great. But when I’m alone, I’m with the person that tried to kill me. Sometimes I walk past a mirror, I’m like, “This f*cking guy again.” That is kind of a creepy feeling sometimes. But it’s also a nice feeling. It gives me a strange kind of confidence sometimes, because, like, look, I… I used to care what everyone thought about me… so much. It was all I cared about. All I cared about was what other people thought of me. And I don’t anymore. And I don’t because I can honestly say, what is someone going to do to me that’s worse than what I would do to myself? What are you going to do, cancel John Mulaney? I’ll kill him.” *Laughter* When I heard that my favorite comedian, John Mulaney, was in a serious bout of rehab for cocaine addiction, I was disappointed. That probably meant no John Mulaney Netflix specials for

 Me and the boys haulin' it in on a Tuesday afternoon      So here I am, and I’ve picked up a piece of Luke that I haven’t paid attention to in the past, and I am going to try and cohesively share a few thoughts on it. It’s where Jesus calls the disciple Peter and some of his mates, where Luke’s account of this interaction is a lot more detailed than Matthew or Mark’s on how exactly Jesus does it. Before we start, John’s account of Jesus’s first interactions with Peter(John 1:42) give us a context clue that by this passage of Luke(Chapter 5 vv. 1-11), Jesus has likely already had a few interactions with the disciples he’s about to call, if not befriended them or at least made their acquaintances. Okay, so, here we are, Luke 5:1-11: On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one o