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I usually find myself identifying with the action of the crowd: sitting back and waiting for Jesus to feed me both spiritually and physically. But when I read the Gospel this time, I found myself relating much more to the disciples.
I can easily imagine the disciples balking at Jesus’ request to feed the crowds: “That would take two hundred days’ wages!” Due to the current economic condition we are asked to accomplish the seemingly impossible or overwhelming with limited resources more and more. You know how that goes.
How did the people get fed? The disciples overcame their initial reluctance and trusted in the plan of Jesus. It did not make sense to them and no one could argue that it was a good business plan, but the disciples soon thought to themselves, “Hey, this is what Jesus wants – this is going to work.”
In our day-to-day struggles to accomplish more with less, our challenge is really to overcome our fear of failing--or even trying--because we don’t "have what it takes". We need to trust that God does have a plan, and we need to seek the wisdom to see God’s plan and the courage to follow the plan.
Like Jesus, we can take what we are given, look up to heaven and give thanks. God will take what we offer and multiply it. And who knows? Maybe we will end up with twelve basketfuls more than we need.
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