Made to Nourish More Than One

Everything here was chosen on purpose.

The counters wide enough for preparation.

The ovens built for volume.

Lights placed where work happens.

Surfaces designed to be wiped clean and used again tomorrow.

This room was not built only to be admired.

It was built to serve.

To feed many.

To hold laughter and mess and long evenings around a table.

Many of us learned to believe that being useful meant being emptied.

That pouring ourselves out required ignoring our own limits.

That serving meant shrinking.

But Christ never asks people to disappear in order to love well.

He feeds crowds—and then makes sure everyone rests.

He multiplies bread—and still sends disciples away to eat.

He honors generosity without demanding self-erasure.

Stopping shrinking sometimes looks like serving from fullness instead of depletion.

Letting your life be well supplied.

Letting your energy be stewarded.

Letting your boundaries remain intact even while your table is open.

There are seasons when abundance feels suspicious.

When having much triggers guilt.

When being resourced makes you worry you are selfish.

Jesus does not shame provision.

He treats it as something to be shared wisely.

Not hoarded.

Not wasted.

Not weaponized against yourself.

If today all you can manage is to cook one meal without overextending, that counts.

If you offer hospitality without resentment, that is healing.

If you let yourself be nourished too, that is obedience.

You were not built to run empty.

You were built to bless from a place of being well supplied.