Dear Friends,   How many times have we read the accounts of the feeding of the multitude in the Gospels? Hundreds, I am sure. What caught my attention recently was not the presentation of the miracle, but what happened before it. Jesus and the Apostles had slipped away on a boat to eat and rest, but the crowds raced on ahead of them from all the towns, and when Jesus saw the crowd, he “had pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.” I pondered what drew the crowds to Jesus? What made them follow him for ...