A night of futile fishing leaves empty nets and empty hearts. Jesus takes the initiative and meets them in the early morning light. He invites them to eat: ‘Breakfast is ready!’ There is an abundant table ready – of fish, food, love, warmth, and great joy. Here, fractured relationships are healed. The risen Lord now stood on the shore of the Lake of Galilee to renew the call they had heard some years earlier.
By his smiling invitation to have breakfast with him, he showed his unbroken friendship towards them, they whom had abandoned him at the time of his passion. The Lord is always inviting us like that. Even if we have failed in our friendship with him, he invites us to start afresh and cast our nets in a different direction. Our relationship with him is full of hope. Easter is when we recognize him again on the shore of our lives, calling us to follow where he is leading us.
