We will never completely know where our influence has touched, but God has worked with the few loaves and a couple of dried fish and done the rest. It is what God asks of us. I have tried to do that with my whole life and many through their examples have helped me to go on in spite of weariness and discouragement. It is community and in community that we find love, and in love there is no ending, only constant new energy and renewal. He speaks of the continuing work of distributing blankets and clothing, of the soup line and showers and phone they provide for the homeless poor.
Love goes on.
Indeed, God is with us. I don't know why God lets people like Michael Kirwan get cancer. I don't know how God can let a mentally ill man kill teenagers at a rally in a church. I don't understand the devastation of earthquakes and floods killing men, women, and children alike regardless of their goodness or evil. And I join the complaint against God in not preventing the unspeakable evils of mass murder and genocide so habitual in this century.