there is enough

The 150-plus gallons of wine at Cana point to a generous God, a God who never runs out of holy things. This is the God who, much to the chagrin of Jonah, saved the rebellious city of Nineveh, the God who turned five loaves of bread and a couple of fish into a lunch to feed five thousand with baskets of leftovers to spare. This God is like a vineyard manager who pays a full day’s wage for just one hour of work, or like a shepherd who leaves his flock in search of a single lamb, or like a father who welcomes his prodigal son home with a robe, a ring, and a feast…

… our God is in the business of transforming ordinary things into holy things, scraps of food into feasts and empty purification vessels into fountains of fine wine. This God knows his way around the world, so there’s no need to fear. . . . There’s always enough—just taste and see. There’s always and ever enough.

                     Rachel Held Evans (Searching for Sunday)

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There is always enough

Or at least there would always be enough

 

To feed the hungry

Clothe the poor

House those without homes

Provide medical care for all

 

There would be enough that all could flourish

and none would want

 

if we truly trusted the generosity of God

if we truly understood how deep, and wide, and high

is the love of God

 

there would be enough if we saw the planet

as a precious expression of God’s very nature

and took care of it

 

there would be enough if we understood

that every living creature is precious

and every human creature

a carrier of, and incarnation of

the Sacred

 

there would  be enough

if we believed that God loves and welcomes all

not just a few

them not just us

 

that God forgives

and transforms

and restores

 

there would be enough if we accepted the radicality of Jesus

“sell all you have and give to the poor”

there would be enough if we considered the lilies of the field

 

it is not easy

it goes against everything we have been taught

 

this path collides with our fear

our desire for comfort

our need for power (and wealth is power)

 

but Gandhi said it well

The “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.“

 

there would be enough

if

filled with God’s love

aware of God’s blessings

trusting that God can turn leftovers into a feast

understanding that if we stop grasping and hoarding and

 

we would open our minds

and our hearts

and our hands

 

then we would not live in a world

where a rich dude can throw 44 billion

at a social networking site

while children starve

and people are without homes

and others must use GoFundMe

to get the cancer care they need

 

we would live in a world where

there is enough

to go around

 

with leftovers