I’m joking (a little), but poor Moses was at the end of his rope. I totally remember relating to Moses’s lament when my kids didn’t like yet another nutritious dinner I’d made: “If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face this distress.” Feeding the hungry can be a thankless task. Parents know that the feeding of people in their care can go either way. Jesus knows that you can’t feed the soul if the body is hungry. Jesus, on the other hand, blesses a mere five loaves and two fish and manages to feed five thousand men, not to mention some thousands of other uncounted souls. Moses puts up with the complaining Israelites, who are plenty sick of eating manna for every meal, who miss the balanced diet they enjoyed in captivity. Today’s readings are about food, or more specifically, procuring food. Feeding is what parents (and grandparents) do. “Do you need more food? Let’s get some food for you.” She made us laugh with her spot-on takes.Īpparently I obsess over making sure everyone eats when we all get together. “Did you eat enough?” she said in a concerned voice. “Hmm, let’s think about this,” she said, rubbing her chin and resting a finger on her forehead, in perfect imitation of her grandpa. My eleven-year-old granddaughter, an astute observer in our midst, was doing impressions of family members at a recent gathering. A Reflection for Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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