filled twelve baskets

Friday, April 16, 2010 Easter Weekday

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel: Acts 5:34-42 Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 John 6:1-15

John 6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten.

It is interesting to me that people will even question this sign. Some say that it was a case of "stone soup", that is people shared what they had. Th problem is the scriptures clearly say that there were 12 baskets that were left from the five loaves. This is as plain as it gets. There is absolutely no room to twist this text without totally discrediting one's intelligence or motives.

The bigger question is do we believe it in our lives? Do we believe that God can feed us all and have left overs more than what was originally there? We must leave the zero sum mentality and realize that with God all things are possible, even those things that we can't even imagine.

Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to believe that all things are possible and to believe that you can make something form nothing. Help me to rest in this knowledge and serve you without fear.

Amen