Henri Nouwen, in his book “Reaching Out,” says: “While visiting the University of Notre Dame, where I had been a teacher for a few years, I met an older experienced professor who had spent most of his life there.  And while we strolled over the beautiful campus, he said with a certain melancholy in his voice, ‘You know....my whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.’” (Henri J.M.  Nouwen, Reaching Out, Garden City., N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc.,  36)

I.  ACCORDING TO THE GOSPELS, INTERRUPTIONS WERE JESUS’ WORK, ALSO.  Consider what was happening in our Scripture lesson from Mark.  As Halford Luccock says, “This whole passage (in Mark) from vs.  24 to the end of the chapter, might be gathered under the …