Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."  The disciples said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to feed so great a crowd?"  Jesus asked them, "How many loaves have you?"  They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."  Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground, he took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.  And all of them ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.  Those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.  After sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

(see also Matthew 14.13-21)

Perhaps during the course of events in our life we grow to believe that God is stingy, that he does not concern himself with our real human needs.  Perhaps we think we shouldn't bother him with our basic needs, that it is selfish to do so, that he should busy himself with others.

God cannot be exhausted.  He cannot tire, he cannot ignore our basic needs.  He cannot be preoccupied with other, more important matters elsewhere and leave us alone until he is finished as though he were superman with these kinds of limitations.

God has compassion on all of us.  He performed miracles such as this one to show that his gifts of grace more than suffice for us, they overflow in superabundance.

"Give, and it will be given to you.  A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap." (Luke 6.38)  But as James says, "You do not have because you do not ask.  You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures... Scripture says, "God yearns jealously for the spirit he has made to dwell in us."  But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.  Submit yourselves therefore to God." (James 4.2-7)