Pride

"Give them something to eat," Mark 6:37.

Who are you talking to, Jesus? Me? To us? with these measly resources? Among the dozen of us we've only got five loaves and a couple fish. Job's way too big for us even to start! This is stupid. Look! At two bucks a head - if we had it - which we don't - and where'd we buy it in these boonies, anyway? - it'd take ten thousand dollars to feed these people! Why do you embarrass us so, Jesus? Why do you raise people's hopes on these hillsides - to shame us? Why do you prepare them to eat from us when we've barely got pennies in our pockets? And, besides that, how are we going to take care of ourselves?! Of our own, if we give what we do have all away to these - to these - well, to these whatever they are? But Jesus. But Jesus looked up. Jesus looked up into the sky. He spoke a blessing, broke the loaves, and they all ate, and were satisfied. Jesus looked up. Sky kingdom.

We remind each other, brother or sister, to look up, up where our real resources are, not the bottom of our pockets. And, together, looking up with Jesus we find pride in our Father in the skies.