Enough faith (Proper 22 & harvest)
Luke 17: 5-10 Do you remember the scene in the film “Oliver”…? Where Oliver Twist, the beautiful blond haired urchin takes his emptied bowl of gruel and asks “Please, sir, can I have some more?”. You will remember the roar of disapproval from Mr Bumble - the portly man in charge - “MORE?!”. Poor Oliver asks because he hasn’t enough. By contrast we celebrate having so much… How lovely it always is to pause and celebrate harvest. Of course, we eat every day – several times a day if we’re lucky. But we don’t always remember to stop and give thanks. So today we make sure we do that. Being surrounded with so much produce – either here in church or in our gardens and fields and shops – we realise how blessed we are, how grateful to God. And so we celebrate having enough – and then we can be generous with what we have to share with others. The story we heard today of Jesus and the disciples might make us wonder what it mea...