Compassion sees and solves the hunger

The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today are revealing love and compassion as the characteristics of our relationship with the Divine. John writes to proclaim that God is love. The psalmist praises God who will bring goodness and peace to the whole world. The desire for loving relationship is deep in humans. When we discover or need for relationship and the poverty of our state in regard to relationship we are open to see the compassion with which the Divine sees us as “sheep without a shepherd” to use the description of the people who had become physically hungry seeking the spiritual nourishment that Jesus was presenting to them.