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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Swarzy Shire

Good Morning. When the weather turns chilly, I love to get out my cast iron pot - because to me it鈥檚 soup season!

My grandma makes the best mutton soup, and it鈥檚 a recipe I love to share with my guests at The Last Supper Club. It鈥檚 hearty, packed with chunky cuts of mutton, carrots, potatoes, cassava, plantain, and if I鈥檝e got the time - coconut dumplings. And of course, soup must be served with bread! So, as an icebreaker a few weeks ago, I asked my guests to bring their favourite loaf. The table overflowed with hard dough bread, sourdough, baguettes, brioche rolls, I mean for bread lovers, it was a little glimpse of heaven!

That week, we read John 6, where Jesus nudges Philip in front of thousands of hungry (and probably HANGRY) people to ask, 鈥淲here shall we buy bread for these people to eat?鈥� Philip does the maths and the maths ain鈥檛 math-ing 鈥� he realises it鈥檚 impossible. But then Jesus takes a boy鈥檚 small lunchbox - five loaves and two fish - and multiplies it until everyone eats as much as they want, with twelve baskets left over!

Here鈥檚 what strikes me: when we face impossible situations, our maths will never add up to enough. One plus one is two - and not enough. But one plus one plus Jesus? That鈥檚 abundance!

The way I see it, what if, like Philip, I saw my impossible moments as invitations to trust Jesus - who already knows what He鈥檚 going to do. My prayer today is that I add Jesus into my equations and see how He multiplies the little I have into more than enough. In Jesus name. Amen.