Isaiah 25:6-10 / Matthew 15:29-37
Geographical locations in the Bible usually have a purpose in that they have something to tell us and also something to reveal to us.
In the gospel, we heard that Jesus went up the hills and the people followed Him.
The hills, the wilderness, the desert - all these places have one thing in common and that is they are usually deserted, and the necessities of life like food and water are hardly available.
And it is in these places that faith and trust in God's providence and love is the only thing that we can hope for.
So it was in the hills that when Jesus brought up the subject of the hungry people, we can't blame the disciples for immediately thinking of their own survival.
Jesus asked them for what they had, their seven loaves and a few small fish, and with that a wonderful thing happened.
The disciples had to give up the little that they had, but out of this desperate situation they saw for themselves that God cannot be outdone in generosity.
As the prophet Isaiah said the 1st reading, it was on a mountain that the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of food rich and juicy, of fine strained wines.
For this to happen in the valleys and plains may be possible, but on the top of a mountain?
For God nothing is impossible, but He would also need us to make it possible, with our generosity.