Eyes up!
I was reading a very familiar account from the bible today, the story of the feeding of the 5000. If you don't know it... a crowd of people (5000 men plus women and children) followed Jesus to listen to him preach. After a while Jesus says to his disciples that the people need to eat because otherwise they will faint on the way home. The disciples say they don't have anything, but a little kid offers his lunch- five loaves and 2 fishes, but what's that among so many people? However, Jesus doesn't scoff at the offering. Instead he takes it in hand and (this is the bit that spoke to me) and let's read what he does... Mark 6:41 (KJV) And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven , and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. He looked up! He took his eyes off of the stuff and looked up to heaven. That phrase 'to look up' is from the G