The LORD creates a path through the sea allowing the Israelites to escape Pharaoh’s army in today’s first reading. Jesus includes all who do the will of the Father in his family in the gospel – even if our own blood relatives disown us. No matter how desperate our situation is, God creates other possibilities. God can make a way even out of no way.
The LORD swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land. When the water was thus divided, the children of Israel marched into the midst of the sea on dry land, with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
EX 14:21—15:1
“Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
MT 12:46-50