The readings today offer the imagery of the sea. Many can identify with this image because they like fishing. Some may have grown in a place close to where people would make fishing a living.  I know I did. For us it was commonplace to go to the lagoon to see how the fishermen work with their nets.  The people who worked there exploited the small lagoon there were hardly any fish left. There was much competition among them to get the last remaining fish. Sometimes we could see them off a distance fishing with their nets, but other times the nets were left hanging on the shore.  When nets are left out there for a long time with no use, they can become moldy, smelly, and tattered.  After some time, they can become ruined.  This image can apply also to our lives.  To those who have seen a great light, a mission is given to cry out like Jesus and say, “Repent the kingdom of God is at hand.”  They are called now to use their nets, their skills, their resources, their very lives to the service of the Gospel. If they do not use their nets, which can also be a metaphor for their baptismal mission as kings, prophets, and priests, then their lives will become ruined. Just as nets become ruined because of their lack of use.  However, the other danger is to overwork the nets and those nets become rend.  Jesus approaches the fishermen who were mending their nets.  Jesus wants to heal us in our brokenness and heal our illnesses. Jesus has it! He was the one going all around Galilee and healing every decease. He was the promised messiah not us.  We must be careful to take care ourselves too as we venture out to become his helpers.  This does not mean complacency but rather to take care we do not become burned out and left in pieces like tattered nets.  Finally, we are reminded as we are called to be fisher of men (using our nets, our resources) for the service of the Gospel, we are called to do so as a team.  Jesus does not want division like we see in the Corinthians.  The Gospel is not copyrighted.  The Gospel does not belong to one group over the other in the Church.  The Gospel is free and is for all.  Therefore, it should not be the source of division, but a shore of unity as we all are in the same boat of the Church.  We are called to focus on others and not in infighting so that the end, through dedication of humble fishers, those who live in darkness may be glorified with light of Christ.  Let us be good fishers of men and use our nets (resources) to bring those in darkness into the boat (Church) with Jesus Christ at its center.