The little boy had broken his piggy bank, counted all his money, and ran to the pharmacy. There he asked how much a miracle cost. The saleswoman looked at him in bewilderment and explained that she sold medicine, not ready-made miracles. “My sister needs a miracle,” the boy blurted out. A well-dressed man who was also in the store asked the boy how much money he had for a miracle. Exactly 1 euro and 12 cents, said the little boy, crying and looking the man in the face. The man went with the boy to his sick sister.

After her brain tumor was removed, she recovered. All it took was a little boy who mustered all his courage and gave away all his savings. He didn’t know that the man was the director of the hospital. The director helped the family privately. It was a huge miracle for the boy!

But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”

Matthew 14,16

When Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish, it was also a little boy who gave everything he had, and Jesus performed the miracle!

Weekly text: Matthew 14,13–21