“Be Still and Know that I am God”
Made Perfect through Sufferings
In today’s lectionary reading, I can’t stop thinking about the trailer I saw yesterday for the documentary A Place at the Table. At the same time we participate in a land of abundance, how can it be that so many are hungry? What is our call as people of faith to address hunger? As people of faith, we proclaim weekly the abundance of God’s love for all of creation. In today’s reading, Philip was living into a world that saw scarcity-that there is not enough. Scarcity leads us to hold on tighter to what is ours. But Jesus shows another way. That in faith, there is enough. In giving of ourselves, in losing ourselves, we find ourselves.
How may we think about our neighbor and live trusting in God’s abundance. Our problem is not scarcity of food, but a problem of distribution. Instead of protecting our place at the table, I pray that we may be living into the story of loaves and fishes by continually making a place at the table for everyone and making sure that all are fed.