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There Is Enough Bread
This Sunday's Gospel brings us one of those encounters with Jesus that refuses to stay safely in the ancient world.
A Canaanite woman comes crying out for help. Her daughter is suffering, and the disciples answer with words that are painfully familiar: Send her away.
She is an outsider. She is inconvenient. Her need interrupts the plans of those already gathered around Jesus.
Yet she persists. And in that persistence, something holy is revealed: she believes there is enough mercy in God for her daughter too. Enough grace. Enough healing. Enough room. Enough bread.
That may be one of the most important spiritual truths for us to carry into this season. We live in a world trained to think in scarcity—not enough time, not enough money, not enough security, not enough for everyone. Fear tells us to protect what is ours. The Gospel tells us something else: that what comes from the heart—compassion, mercy, courage, generosity, and love—is what reveals the Kingdom of God among us.
So as we prepare to gather this Sunday, I invite us to carry one question into prayer:
Where is God asking me to make room?
Perhaps for someone whose story I do not understand. Perhaps for someone whose suffering I have overlooked. Perhaps for a neighbor I have quietly placed outside the circle. Perhaps even for a part of me I have struggled to welcome with compassion.
The Canaanite woman believed there was enough grace to reach beyond every boundary. She was right.
There is enough bread. There is enough mercy. There is enough room at God's table.
And every time we make that table a little wider, the Kingdom of God draws a little nearer.
See you Sunday.
Blessings,
Mo. Allison+
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