He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. When he had entered, he said to them, ‘Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.’ And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha cum’, which means, ‘Little girl, get up!’ And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. (Mark 5: 37-43)

"Get her something to eat," Jesus instructed. He had raised the little girl from the dead or the edge of death by holding her hand and speaking two words. But she was still in need of daily necessities.

There are times when I seem suspended between two parallel worlds: one overflowing with miracles, the other scorched with fear. One is as real as the other, but they are almost entirely separate.

Jesus is a pathway between these two realities. He brings rain to the desert. But after the rain it is still necessary to gather food, stoke the fire, mend the roof, and - occasionally - recover from the flood.