Food that Perishes

"Do not work for food that perishes but work for food that endures to eternal life." John 6:27

“Peter, do you love me?" Jesus asked in Gospel of John, Chapter 21. This was after Peter denied him three times. You would think that Jesus would give up on this ungrateful, cowardly, faithless man, but no! Jesus gave him a BIG job, sooo BIG! Jesus asked Peter to love His church!

This gives me a lot of HOPE! It makes me feel that Jesus would still ask me, “Patsy, do you love me?", even after I deny Him in so many small and big ways! Like choosing to read a David Baldacci thriller instead of Scripture or preferring to watch countless art videos instead of fixing my messy room (which is tantamount to fixing my messy life!!!)

One morning in 2013, while my mom and I were talking after mass, there was a man who approached us. He said he was hungry. So we sent our driver off with him with some money to buy food. When the man smiled, for a very split second, like 1/4 of a second, I caught a glimpse of Jesus and I teared up.

What if I hadn't given money to buy food? How many times have I not taken the trouble to think of a way to feed someone? “Do not work for food that perishes but work for food that endures to eternal life." John 6:27