Note: I suggest that if you haven’t yet read Miracle Of Faith – Part 1, you start there.  This way you’ll get the whole story.

Installment 2A

The Concept:

So what was this exciting idea that had consumed this woman’s imagination for over a year?  I thought you’d never ask.

Most of us know the story in the Bible of the five loaves and two fishes.  If you don’t, you’ll find that it’s one of the few stories of Jesus that lives in all four of the Gospels – Matthew, Mark Luke and John.

Essentially it’s a story about the act of creating matter from nothing, or perhaps matter from faith, or even better, supply from thought.

Think: Magician pulls rabbit out of hat.

Only this magic act took place around two thousand years ago and it’s story that has been read and passed on from generation to generation by billions over time.  It’s truly one of the most awesome miracles demonstrated by this wondrous being who walked the globe in sandals.

A quick recap: Jesus preaches to 5000 souls.  As the day closes and the sun begins to set, his disciples feel the unrest of the hungry – those who want to hear the Master’s words, but have sat and listened for many hours and now need to eat.  The disciples suggest to Jesus that he let them go so that they may find food, but Jesus, who simply has more to teach knows that the real food lay in the truths that he teaches.

So he says to the disciples, “So feed them.”  Astonished, they reply, “With what?  They are 5000 souls.  You ask the impossible!”

But a young boy steps forth from the throng and says, “I have five loaves and two fishes!”  He gets it.  The disciples don’t.  The boy is willing to give his all for Christ.  The disciples essentially say, ”Get outta here, kid.  Don’t bother the man.”  But Jesus says, “Bring the boy forth.”

At that, he prays and then reaches into the boy’s basket, takes the five loaves and two fishes and keeps on takin’.  The basket produces food for the 5000 … with leftovers.

Dora’s great idea, difficult as it was to accomplish, was to look at the event through the eyes of three different people using three different songs in a trilogy.  Those three different interpretations of the event would be told by first, the boy himself, then the second by a doubting disciple, Thomas, who first turned the boy away and then by Jesus in the third song.

In order to tell the story faithfully and also to be able to add original perspectives to the story, the songs took on a rather theatrical nature.  First of all, they were long – ranging between 6-8 minutes as opposed to the usual 3-4 minutes of most songs.  We began to see this more as a theatrical event – a musical album perhaps.  Perhaps even one piece that could even eventually be performed live.

Stay tuned for Installment B.