This is all I have,
It doesn’t seem much,
But I’m giving it to you
Some see the difficulties,
the lack,
the need for more
You see the possibilities,
what can be done,
if only
we hand over
what we have
What I have
seems so small,
Insignificant,
not enough
for the need,
for all that is required
But in your hands,
broken,
blessed
and shared,
it is beyond
what is needed,
so much more than I gave.
And so Lord,
I give to you,
what I have,
what I am,
for you to break
and bless
and use
Matthew 14:13-21 (MSG)
Supper for Five Thousand
13-14 When Jesus got the news, he slipped away by boat to an out-of-the-way place by himself. But unsuccessfully—someone saw him and the word got around. Soon a lot of people from the nearby villages walked around the lake to where he was. When he saw them coming, he was overcome with pity and healed their sick.
15 Toward evening the disciples approached him. “We’re out in the country and it’s getting late. Dismiss the people so they can go to the villages and get some supper.”
16 But Jesus said, “There is no need to dismiss them. You give them supper.”
17 “All we have are five loaves of bread and two fish,” they said.
18-21 Jesus said, “Bring them here.” Then he had the people sit on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to the disciples. The disciples then gave the food to the congregation. They all ate their fill. They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. About five thousand were fed.
“Love, like two fish and five loaves, is never enough until you give it away”
Mara Johns has arrived in ‘a great northern cathedral city’ to continue her studies. She is a daughter of the Vicarage, but anti-church – and interesting position in an institution that also trains Priests. Mara wants to be left alone to get on with her research, but would-be friends persist and she lets them in, becoming good friends with Maddy and May; intrigued by her corridor neighbour ‘The Polecat’; and caught between Rupert and Johnny, who both pursue her.
Pam's Perambulation 