The little I bring

Our days have been so busy lately. We have had so much going on that I feel as if we just get home from one outing/event and have only minutes squished in there between the next thing we have to do or the next place we have to go. I am feeling physically and emotionally worn out. Maybe part of it is that vacation awaits us next week and it just can't get here fast enough.

I woke to this day exhausted, thinking of all that awaits me in the next few days; all that there is to do. I feel as if I have so little to give. I am tired.

Early this morning I opened our bedroom curtains--which poured in such happy morning sunlight that I could not possibly fall back asleep--, and I read from Matthew 14.

The disciples want to send the crowds away. Jesus, ever blunt, replies: "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."

The disciples: "We have here only..."

As I read that I wondered how often it is that Jesus asks something of me and my first response is "But I have only..." Even as I looked at the days activities stretched before me, my attitude was, "But I have such little energy. I have little patience, not nearly enough time..."

But then Jesus says this: "Bring them here to me." It's as if he's saying, "Yes, I see what little you do have to bring me. But bring it right over here, to me, and I will multiply that so that you can feed others."

My prayer today?

Jesus, will You take what little I have? I bring it to You, as the disciples brought that meager meal of 5 loaves and 2 fish, and I ask that you would multiply what little I bring.