New meal, new story - 5

5 New meal, new story
Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN

So, like I said, it’s as though we’re now a single family. Thirty-two of us who heard the story and had the same thing happen to us. My wife heard the story and it had the same effect on her too, but half the others are people we’d never really thought of as our type before. Slaves too, quite a few of them. And you know what? We share things around. We treat each other as brothers and sisters. (Weird! But it seems to work.) It’s called agape, which is like what we used to mean by ‘love’, but somehow it’s more . . . well, practical. It means you do things differently. Everybody counts…