The gospel passage for this Sunday sees Jesus feeding 5,000 hungry people with five loaves and two fishes (Matthew 14:13-21). Making the world a better place is not something limited to Jesus 2,000 years ago. Helping the poor and hungry and looking after those who are vulnerable or in need is the responsibility of us all. Nouwen (1994) says that we need to be 'mystics' and 'revolutionaries'. The 'mystic' is concerned with changing the human heart and the 'revolutionary' is concerned with changing human society. In case you think of yourself as being one or the other, Nouwen also says that every real 'revolutionary' is challenged to be a 'mystic' at heart. 'Mysticism' and 'revolution' are two aspects of the same desire to make the world a better place to live. The whole socio-political world in which we live is geared against change. This should mean that we do not want to try. William Wordsworth talked about being as 'impatient as the Wind'

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