Nm 11:4-15 / Mt 14:13-21
We already have everything we need, not perhaps what’s needed to win the marathon or clear a million dollars on the stock market today, but everything that’s needed to make this day work. That would have been a surprise to the grumbling Israelites. Like them we also focus too often on what we don’t have and let that define us. Too often we pass our days in sadness, mourning what we don’t have, instead of delighting that we do have what’s needed. And so the days and years pass in discontent, and eventually we die. What a waste, when every day could have been a joy, delighting in the myriad gifts that God sends to those with the eyes to see.
Why not take a second look at what you have, a second look at God’s little daily gifts. You are more blessed than you ever imagined! Thanks be to God!