July 30, 2003
Loaves and fishes
We expect 5,000 more or less at the big General Convention Eucharist come Sunday.
There’s something familiar about the number. But just to protect our flanks, we’ll have more than a few loaves and fishes to go around. Then, we’ll take what we’ve got and bless it and break it and share it, just like Jesus did… well, sort of.
Of course, that’s what he asks us to do with life, ours, and all the rest of creation. Take what we’ve got, thank God for it, sacrifice it (as in “make it holy”), and then pass it around. It’s so simple, it’s inconceivable. He asked us to do it, anyhow, and, in doing so, to re-member him in the world and to look for him in others.
Thank God he didn’t ask us to walk on water. There’s no telling how complicated we’d make that.