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Can you hear the ripple of excitement passing through the crowd, as the realization of what's happening slowly dawns, as the amazement of baskets that aren't depleted catches like a fever, growing in ardor until the entire crowd is shouting in wonder at what is happening in their midst? What would it have been like, to hear the whispers and the questions and wait anxiously to see the basket, to take bread and know that there is still plenty for your neighbor? You'd marvel at that for the rest of your life, telling the story to anyone who would sit still long enough to listen.
And because Jesus can't help always giving us a deeper glimpse into God's amazing love, there is a lesson for us -- there is more than enough, and it is gathered up, because Jesus is focused that nothing should be lost.
The Good Shepherd is always trying to show us how he has come to gather the lost. You who feel like broken fragments, far from the source of the miracle, forgotten amidst the world's fervent rushing -- Jesus sends people out so that you may not be lost.
This is the one who has come to the world, that the world may be saved!
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