Luke 9:10-17
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
10 When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves to a town called Bethsaida, 11 but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.
12 Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here."
13 He replied, "You give them something to eat."
They answered, "We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd." 14 (About five thousand men were there.)
But he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." 15 The disciples did so, and everybody sat down. 16 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to set before the people. 17 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Jesus Disciples did not believe that He could feed all the men, women, and children who had followed Him to listen to what He had to say...But He fed five thousand men with five loaves of bread and two fish...And each of the five thousand men and the others got to eat as He gave thanks and broke the bread and the fish...Jesus fed many that one day with very little provisions...
Jesus had faith that He could feed the large crowd...I believe if I were there, I might have agreed with the Disciples and would have wondered how all these people were going to be fed with the little food He had gathered...But faith is a day to day thing, and a one step at a time thing...Faith is very often about the choices we make each day...The decisions we make each day are important...
Dorothy Day wrote, “we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment...But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.”...