Prayer: Abundant God, you provide for our needs. Help us to share your love and ours knowing there is always more to spare. Amen.
Reading: Matthew 14: 13-21 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: The night before a holiday meal I worry will I have enough food for everyone and always there are plenty of leftovers. After our daughter’s wedding reception there was still so much food we took it to the homeless shelter. Our church has had an ongoing free lunch program for children since the corona outbreak. How would we keep an adequate supply of food? One week a local supermarket donated 100 loaves of bread! There always seems to be enough provided by one source or another. This lead me to a thought. Perhaps among the 5,000 there were some that had their own ”lunch” which they shared and so there was enough food for all! Not explaining away a miracle. Just a thought that what we might think is not enough, really is or becomes more than we knew. God in His marvelous ways supplies our needs. Thus we offer kindness and our good deeds seem to multiply. We share and there is more to spare. --Alice Yeakel
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