Being Bread
After a late dinner, we were walking back to our hotel when the breeze brought a whiff of freshly baked bread. I turned and stared through the darkness at an arched opening backlit by flames. A glistening shirtless man was lifting loaves out of the brick oven with a long paddle, balancing, turning, then sliding […]
Never Hunger, Never Thirst
The crowds searched for Jesus, hoping for another miracle. The people search him out, seeking a miraculous sign.* Or rather, seeking yet another sign. And another. And then, maybe another, if you don’t mind. We keep asking for more and more of what we already have. We want to see again what we have been […]
Names and Stories
When I lived in Israel in the early 1970s, I visited a lake in the northern part of the country that Israelis call Kinneret. It is called that, I was told, because its roughly triangular shape resembles a kinnor, a certain kind of hand-held harp mentioned many times in scripture. Some linguists say this is […]
Healing Inward and Outward
Sometimes life presses in on me. With a body tired, a mind swirling with a multitude of thoughts, a heart aching, what desires to be open, present, and engaged is lost to me. The pressing has me feeling separate from the Source of animating vitality. The creativity and compassion cannot flow. I need to rest […]