children—sitting in the crowd.11Jesus picked up the bread, gave thanks to God, and passed it to everyone. He repeated this ritual with the fish.Men, women, and childrenall ate until their hearts were content.12When the people had all they could eat, He told the disciplesto gather the...
“After waiting thirty years to begin his ministry, his first ministry act was to follow the Spirit into forty days in the wilderness. His own brothers urged him to do some publicity if he wanted to be a public figure, but Jesus didn’t bite. He seemed frustratingly unhurried on his way...
quiet spirit. Everyone who ever met her liked her immediately because she liked people. She was a praying woman like her mother before her. Even though I was in my Godless decade, having shaken my fist at God, telling Him to go away, ...