Thursday, October 20, 2016

Devotion - Thursday, October 20

There is this crowd that seems to be around Jesus for most of his ministry.  There are references to his seeking a bit of time away from the crowd, so that he can pray and commune with The Father.  But the crowd isn't gone for long.  They return - or he returns to them.

When he feeds the 5,000 it is after they have been with him.  They were together, and this need arose.  Jesus responds to their needs because he is there there with them and sees what has happened or is happening to them.

This is a model which the Church needs to keep in mind and in our hearts.  We are not an emergency room where folks go when there is a need for urgent care.  We are a community, already together.  We should not be a relief agency, there to dole out assistance upon request.  We are a network of persons strewn together on a divine spider web which allows us to feel the vibrations of another's distress.

There is this crowd - and we are part of it.  Connected and thus responsive to the hurts and the needs and the hopes of the rest of others in this crowd.

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