Five thousand men and many more women and child out in the desert and only a boy with food? I don't think so. When we share what we have with each other there tends to be more than enough to go around. The miracle or lesson here seems to be one one of sharing with each other, of hospitality, of the spiritual gift of giving and receiving, of seeing others as ourselves. To me that is a miracle that is sustainable. The boy shares, Joshua perceives the purity of this act and divides it up and distributes it showing them (the crowd the answer)

To this day churches pass a basket through the crowd and it comes back full and the body and spirit of the church become satisfied. I would suggest humbly that this view of what happened offers much more than a mere magic trick or Joshua making a miracle. It offers us a solution on many levels. I suppose my question is why, this obvious point of view has not been addressed and maybe it could be discussed?

Mike