Sometimes A Miracle

Over the past two days, we’ve reflected on the story of the feeding of the 5,000, and raised the question: What can Jesus do with just a little bit of faith, and some small action on our part?

I remember a number of years ago now, I was leading a young adult Sunday School class in another church, and this young couple showed up – kind of out of the blue.  They had two small boys in tow. We got the boys to their class, and the parents stayed with us. They showed up the next Sunday, and then the next. Over the course of the next few years, it was rare that they missed a Sunday.  

And then one day in that same class, the father shared with us – that on that Saturday night before their first visit, his wife had told him that she was leaving. She wanted out of the marriage. They were both deeply unhappy. But the next morning when they woke up she said, “You know when I was a little girl we used to go to church.” He said, “So did I…”  And so we came here that first morning, and that was three years ago.

Sometimes… just a little faith, and some small action, in the hands of Jesus, can lead to a miracle.

Let us pray: O God, give us eyes to see the world not as the disciples saw it, but as Jesus sees it – as a world with the potential for miracles when our lives and our gifts are placed in his hands. Amen.