Can something come from nothing?

So what was the miracle?  There was a crowd of people trying to get to Jesus.  He’d wanted a bit of down time with his closest followers, but that wasn’t to be – not that day.  And they were hungry.  What was he to do?  He’d already rejected the idea of turning stones into bread – that kind of something from nothing miracle-that wasn’t his way – but they were hungry.  Then the boy come with his picnic lunch and everything became possible.  Not something from nothing but taking what was offered and changing a hungry crowd into a community of people who knew what it was to have enough.  Could that approach work now?  A chance of changing the world? Worth a try?    ( John ch 6:1-21)