a couple of things:

today's gospel was the feeding of the five thousand (Mark 6).
how specific this story is!
The disciples want to send the crowd away: they don't have the two hundred denarii that would be needed to feed them. Jesus wants them to stay so, together, they sort a solution.
And so, in great detail, the story continues.
The gospels are full of detail.
Probably added orally bit by bit over the years before Mark or Luke wrote their versions. The stories would probably have been told to the children of christians; children, perhaps. of the disciples themselves.
Children love detail in stories and, when it came their turn to relate these stories to their children they would remember those details and, probably, embroider a little;
change a little.
exaggerate a little  . . . .
This is what storytellers do.

The detail is important and we love it.
you love it.

You who created the sea monsters to play with.
In French it's even better:
"et Léviathan que tu formas pour t'en rire."


the other thing.
I called this blog "trying again" because that is how my life spiritual works - or doesn't work perhaps.
I never really get anywhere because I muck it up and have to start over.
It struck me though, today, that it is not I who try again.
It is you!
"time and time again" says the psalmist in one of the saturday psalms.