Have you anything here to eat?

 

Luke 24:41-43

While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.

Have you anything here to eat?

A reasonable request.

Bursting from a tomb

and trawling through hell

is ravenous work.

Have you anything here to eat?

A request that’s easily met

As we sift through the remnants in the fridge

and google ‘leftover recipes’

Have you anything here to eat?

A request that takes our attention

from ourselves

to another

with the gifts of grace and hospitality

Have you anything here to eat?

A request that enables a shift

beyond our anxiety

to the possibility of encounter

and the potential of transformation

Have you anything here to eat?