Help Us See Your Blessings

 Note: There should be two slices today.  Still don't understand why yesterday's did ot appear.

 

Mark 8: 14-21

 Why Don't You Understand?

¹⁴ Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. ¹⁵ Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

¹⁶ And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have no bread.”

¹⁷ But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? ¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

They said to Him, “Twelve.”

²⁰ “Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

And they said, “Seven.”

²¹ So He said to them, “How is it you do not understand?”

Jesus might well ask the same question of us, "How is it you do not understand?  Have we not seen "miracles" in our lives, as when "impossible" predicaments are suddenly resolved or softly settled without the ripple we were expecting? We see so often with only our eyes and not with the eyes of faith. We let our own fearful imaginations govern our thoughts and push us into the "doubt trap".  When we find ourselves there again, we might interrogate ourselves as Jesus did with the questions in verses 17-21. Lord, that I may see your blessings and not let my fears blind me.

Bro. Rene

 
Lord, in your miracle of the loaves and fishes your disciples did not recognize that you were revealing to them how close and abundant was the Father’s love for them. Help us to recognize the blessings of our lives, and grant us hearts of gratitude for the gifts you have given to us. Make us, too, generous with our gifts, that others—especially those in need—might also know of the extraordinary generosity of your love. Amen.

Rev. Louis DelFra, C.S.C.