“Be gentle when you touch bread. Let it not lie uncared for, unwanted. So often bread is taken for granted. There is so much beauty in bread—beauty of the sun and soil, beauty of patient toil, winds and rains have caressed it, Christ often blessed it. Be gentle when you touch bread.” (unknown, from More-with-Less-Cookbook)
“This is our daily experience: we are the dough unceasingly raised up by the yeast of Love.” (Pierre Wolff, Discernment: The Art of Choosing Well)
“The kingdom (the realm) of God is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with flour until all was leavened.” (Jesus, Matthew 13:33)
“Lord, make me like your bread, your body
take me
bless me
break me
and pass me around your people.” (unknown)
“I am the bread of Life” said Jesus.
Every culture has developed its form of bread, from wheat, corn, rice or some other grain from the earth, soil, sun, and rain. For daily bread, is our daily prayer for all the physically, relationally, and spiritually hungry in the world. From manna in the wilderness, to shared loaves among thousands on the hillside, the communion of our God is found wherever two or more share bread, the Bread of Life.
Become bread, grown in the grace of God. Let the yeast of Love give fullness, let it rise within. Let the aroma of the baking fill the senses, warming the heart. Kneaded, formed, risen, fired; be taken and blessed, broken and shared. Become bread for living.
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