John 6:30-31″So they asked him, ‘What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert…'” (NIV)*

If I created a garden of petals and vines

Provided seed for bread and fruit for wine

Unleashed a rainbow across the sky

Carved a canyon deep, shaped a mountainside…

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Tell me, would that suffice?

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If I sprinkled stars on an icing sky

Lit a giant nightlight in the dark outside

Woke the sun every morning on the early side

Packed grains of sand where the oceans tide…

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Tell me, would that suffice?

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by Patty Perkins

They were stuck in disbelief and asked for a sign of mere manna. Then, they would believe. Not. The very bread of life was within their reach…yet they couldn’t grasp him. They heard him speak…yet didn’t know him. They saw his face…yet didn’t believe. What more could he do?

*The One Year Bible, New International Version, copyright 1986, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.