He saw Jesus on the shore and left the net in the boat...
Peter had spent his whole adult life wanting to be a successful fisherman. Then for three years he followed Jesus. Then Jesus died. And Peter and the others went back to the only thing they knew how to do. They fished all night and caught nothing.
In the morning, a man on the shore called out and told them to throw the net on the other side. The net filled with more fish than they could pull in. A hundred and fifty-three, the Gospel says. A career-making catch. Peter could have had his dream right there in the boat.
Instead John looked across the water and said, "It is the Lord."
And Peter jumped.
He put his coat back on, plunged into the sea, and swam for shore. He left a net heavy with everything he had ever wanted. Until he met Jesus, that is.
This collection is a healthy mix. Some of it is photography from the original Reflections of Christ shoots, like Lovest Thou Me. Some of it is painted, a collaboration with South African painter Pieter Van Tonder. The paintings come in horizontal and vertical pairs, so you can hang one, a pair, or group them together.
Same story, told a few different ways.
I think about who hangs these. There are those still waiting for the ship to come in, who want a reminder, when it does, of who they were really following. And there are those who already got the net full, who need the daily reminder that the joy was never in the fish. It was always in the man on the shore.
That is the whole offer of Peter at the Shore. When the real thing walks up, the dream in the net stops mattering.
"Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, and plunged into the sea." — John 21:7 (NKJV)
He saw Jesus on the shore and left the net in the boat...
Peter had spent his whole adult life wanting to be a successful fisherman. Then for three years he followed Jesus. Then Jesus died. And Peter and the others went back to the only thing they knew how to do. They fished all night and caught nothing.
In the morning, a man on the shore called out and told them to throw the net on the other side. The net filled with more fish than they could pull in. A hundred and fifty-three, the Gospel says. A career-making catch. Peter could have had his dream right there in the boat.
Instead John looked across the water and said, "It is the Lord."
And Peter jumped.
He put his coat back on, plunged into the sea, and swam for shore. He left a net heavy with everything he had ever wanted. Until he met Jesus, that is.
This collection is a healthy mix. Some of it is photography from the original Reflections of Christ shoots, like Lovest Thou Me. Some of it is painted, a collaboration with South African painter Pieter Van Tonder. The paintings come in horizontal and vertical pairs, so you can hang one, a pair, or group them together.
Same story, told a few different ways.
I think about who hangs these. There are those still waiting for the ship to come in, who want a reminder, when it does, of who they were really following. And there are those who already got the net full, who need the daily reminder that the joy was never in the fish. It was always in the man on the shore.
That is the whole offer of Peter at the Shore. When the real thing walks up, the dream in the net stops mattering.
"Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, and plunged into the sea." — John 21:7 (NKJV)
