God Feeds Us

Our first reading today  from  the Book of Numbers 11: 4b-15, recounts a capsulized version of the complaints voiced to Moses by the people:  their dissatisfaction with their "boring" diet of manna day after day, their desire for meat, fish, melons, onions and garlic, the heat, in short, a list of complaints that brought Moses to the point of asking God to take his life to escape the complaining people.
So much of this rings true in our day as we tire of a daily diet of mass shootings, political bickering, reports of floods, intense heat waves, opioid and Ebola epidemics, and on and on.  We want to jump off the planet.
Yet, we see Jesus, who was trying to find some peace and quiet to mourn after learning of the unjust beheading of John the Baptist, besieged by a huge crowd who came for cures. By evening, it became apparent that they were hungry and, no doubt, complaining.  Rather than jump off the planet to escape, Jesus fed them.  So too with us.  God knows our needs, hears our complaints even before we voice them, and "feeds" us, takes care of us in some satisfying way.  No need to despair  or "jump", but just turn to him and let him handle it. He certainly can do a better job than we.
Bro. Rene