What Is Your Focus?

[312 words] Jesus went into the desert looking for a place to pray. However, when he and his apostles went ashore they discovered a huge crowd of people. Scripture says that there were about 5000 men. (Counting the women and children, I’m guessing that there were 10,000 or more people.) After a full day of preaching, the people were hungry but they were in a barren place and the only food was what a boy had taken … five small barley loaves and two small fish. But Jesus took that small amount, blessed it, and started giving it out. The food kept coming and coming until everyone was fed. The leftovers were taken up and saved for another day — 12 baskets-full. You can find this story in all four gospels (Matthew 14:13-21, Luke 9:10-18, Mark 6:40-44 and John 6:1-21). This event teaches us many lessons such as how the…