Sunday, 4 August 2013

FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISH

PRAYER MOMENT
Monday 5 August 2013
FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISH
Pause. Be still in the presence of God.
Reading. “Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to heaven and said the blessing. And breaking the loaves he handed them to his disciples who gave them to the crowds.” (Matt 1413-21)
Reflection. What we read in the gospels is charged with a meaning that it is not immediately apparent in the words. There is an “extra” meaning that emerges from meditation and prayer on the text. There are six verbs in the quotation given above – each of them capable of stretching our imagination far beyond their immediate meaning. He “took” the little that they had and added so much to it that it fed five thousand. He receives into his hands all the offerings we make each day, be they ever so small, and – maybe without our noticing it – he adds to them and ripples go out and touch people we will never know

Prayer. Lord, I want to be so united with you that all my actions become your actions and then they are blessed and broken and given to your people so that they may have life to the full. Amen.

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