Thursday, July 02, 2020

A Little Boy’s Lunch


What is in a Boy?: Reflections on the Feeding of the Five Thousand –  Formingfaith 
I am always intrigued by this one
And I will tell you why,
I can’t understand the disciples
However hard I try.

Two hundred pennyworth of bread
Was not sufficient, one had said,
But Peter announced
Here is a lad with some fish and bread.

I am puzzled by their mathematics
But Jesus surely was not
For after sharing the little lad’s lunch
Everybody got!
Primary maths: Calculations with four operations | Tes
They got enough and to spare:
There was subtraction and addition,
Multiplication and division
And Jesus taught problem solving.

Stewart Russell © June 2020

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