What Sustains Us – Aug. 9, 2021
“We know that love nourishes us. When it is in our lives, we can bear pain, confusion and even death. This is why I link the food of the spirit, love, with the food of the body, bread. Both are staples. They sustain us.” –Gunilla Norris, Becoming Bread (Hidden Spring, 2003), p. xii
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 […]
The Healing Power of Nature – July 20, 2021
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,places to play in and pray in,where nature may heal and give strengthto body and soul alike. -John Muir, The Yosemite
Two Tables
I had a waking dream as I looked up from the stony field I was tilling, my nose so close to the grindstone, my focus on the seeds that I was turning loose. Squinting in the sunlight, I wondered aloud, “What exactly is it that I’m doing?” In the hustle and rush of this unpredictable […]
