1 Cor 3:18-23 / Luke 5:1-11
We have heard of words like ordinary and extraordinary and we know what those two words mean in everyday language.
Probably the words with the closest meaning to that would be usual and unusual.
Whether extraordinary or unusual, we are not likely to associate the meaning of those two words with weird.
Because weird would mean like strange or funny or annoying or foolish.
But the ways of God can be said to be unusual or extraordinary in a polite sense, and it also be said to be weird in crude sense or in a more spiritual sense, it is mysterious.
Some examples in the Bible are Abraham and Sarah having a child in old age; the fall of Jericho where the Israelites marching around the city blowing trumpets before the city walls crumbled; the donkey talking with the pagan prophet Balaam, etc.
The 1st reading says that the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. Hence, it can also be said that the ways of God seems to be foolishness and weird and strange.
In the gospel, Peter may have also thought that what Jesus told him to do was rather weird and strange and maybe even foolish. But it was until he did it that he discovered for himself the wonderfully mysterious ways of God.
Today as the Church observes the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, let us also do our part in protecting our environment and to care for the world we live in.
Making the effort to recycle materials and prevent wastage may not not be extraordinary or unusual.
But in doing so we are acknowledging that God is the Creator and we are stewards of His creation.
May our prayer for the care of creation also lead us to into action in caring for creation and enhancing the beauty of God's creation.