Nothing wasted

John 6:12-13

When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets.

Jesus - the original green agitator

Recycling the scraps

Redistributing wealth 

Making sure that nothing was wasted

Be it a loaf of barley bread

Or a tax collector 

or widow

or orphan.

Each one honoured

Each given purpose and status

None lost 

to the fickleness 

of a consumer society

that blows hot and cold

that one day values

and the next discards.

Instead each and all

are swept up

in a tide of momentum

that gathers

and cradles

each fragile scrap

until love flows in

bringing healing 

and leaving wholeness 

in its wake.

"So that nothing may be lost."