I guess he didn't know that the water was deeper Than the place he'd once been. We stripped and dived and found his body Stuck in the old quicksand. The Sergeant said, "Turn around men! I'm in charge here from now on." And we just made it out of the Big Muddy With the captain dead and gone.
Seconds later, the captain's helmet Was all that floated by. Those who protest peacefully, need courage to keep doing what is needed to change our world for the better.All of a sudden, the moon clouded over, All we heard a gurgling cry. Healthcare workers and those who work to keep us safe. Courage is still needed but in the right places. Others have entered into leadership positions to guide our society to be more just and equitable. They say, where is your faith? My faith is in a God who has given some people the wisdom to be scientists and doctors.
#WAIST DEEP IN BIG MUDDY HOW TO#
We need to wear masks and learn how to social distance. I think we are in one of those times when wisdom is more important than false courage. But the thing he wrestled with has put his hip out of joint. While Jacob is waist-deep in the Big Muddy, a man, or an angel, or a demon, or God, comes and wrestles with him. But I think God also wants Jacob to learn to how to live compassionately. But if we plunge into the situations that require wisdom with false bravado, with recklessness, with wishful thinking, then we will perish. I think it is important in life, to learn that some situations require wisdom and others require courage. We expect the Bible to tell us on every page not to be afraid. Sometimes fear is the appropriate emotion. I want to stop right there and say what is obvious.
We tend to make Bible people into heroes. Now it doesn’t say this, but I think Jacob is afraid. In chapter 32, we find Jacob waist-deep in the Big Muddy. You may be wondering what all this has to do with Jacob.
I say this now because people who claim to be great leaders aren’t always right. And Richard Nixon was running for president with a campaign promise of providing “Law and Order.” Waist Deep in the Big Muddy became one of the popular songs of the time. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had been shot. At that time, we were waist-deep in the Viet Nam War. I don’t know if this happens every forty years or so, but I was a teen in 1968 when a folk singer named Pete Seeger came on the Smother’s Brothers (my favorite show) and sang a song about a platoon of Marines crossing the Big Muddy by the light of the silvery moon. It seems like the whole country is waist-deep in the Big Muddy. Dads coming to their aid with leaf blowers to blow the tear gas back. We have this COVID thing going on for six months now. It is now 2020, and this summer I feel as though we are all about waist-deep in the big muddy. Then there is a gurgling sound and the captain is no more. The sergeant can barely see the captain ahead of them pushing on. Next, they are neck-deep in the Big Muddy and the moon goes behind a cloud. They’ve been out all night and are exhausted. They go a little further and the sergeant notes how strong the current is and how the men have heavy backpacks. Push on.” A few yards further, they were all waist-deep in the Big Muddy. So, the sergeant whispers, “Are you sure?” The captain says, “Don’t be a nervous Nelly. It was dark, the men grumbled, and no one could see to the other side. We cross it here.” So soon, they were all knee-deep in the Big Muddy. But, the captain says, “I know this river. And the sergeant takes out his map to see how they all got lost. There’s a was captain, a sergeant, and about two dozen grunts. Back in 1942, a platoon of Marines in basic training was practicing a night patrol down in Louisiana.
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