Bread For Life

God is good at feeding us. Centuries ago, as the Hebrews wandered in the desert after leaving Egypt, God gave them manna each day from which they made bread. Those who hunger are always satisfied. "Open wide your mouth and I will fill it." (Psalm 81:11 ). "...Israel (us) I would feed with finest wheat/and fill them with honey from the rock." (Ps 81: 17) Their descendents a millenium later, were told to sit on a grassy hillside along the Sea of Galillee, while bread and fish were distributed to satisfy their hunger. Not long after, Jesus explained that He was the ultimate bread : I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. (Jn 6:35). Manna was fulfilled in the bread of life. This same bread is available to us weekly, even daily. It is bread that comes to us in the WORD, in the sacrament, and in the faith shared by those attending. More nourishing than the finest food we can produce, it feeds the new life we received at baptism and enables us, as we have been fed, to be bread for others. Take a moment to thank God for this tremendous gift, and prepare now to receive it over the weekend. It is our bread for life, the bread that makes us live.
Bro. Rene