An interesting email arrived in my in box today. It’s from Roy Williams, “The Wizard of Ads.” In it, he briefly tells the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five loaves and two small fishes. It’s a story of which most of us are familiar. But the part that Roy focuses on is the quote attributed to Jesus after the meal; “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.”

Perhaps, because it’s a Monday, or perhaps because we are just coming off a big holiday weekend spent with friends and family that this email so resonated with me. As Roy further writes, “Consider. This was a person of unlimited resources, a man who could create abundance from nothingness, yet he said to his followers, “Gather up the fragments.””

Have you ever stopped to “gather up the fragments” of your life? (more…)