Volume 6, Issue 8, April 1997

AS I LOOK AT BREAD

In my hand is a loaf of bread. In this bread I see the companionship of people - for, throughout the ages, the sharing of bread together has been an act of friendship between persons. It is a means of communion between humans.

When we eat bread we are eating months of sunlight, days of rain, richness out of the earth. Bread eaten is mysteriously changed into the laughter and love of a person. We should be great, each of us, radiant, full of music, and full of stories, able to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint. Bread becomes personal life, and collectively the mighty deeds of many.

And so, as I look at this bread, I see in it children, youths, men and women of all countries; their hopes, their homes, their friendship.

What then shall I do with this bread?

Just as many grains of wheat, scattered abroad over the fields, being gathered together, become one with all people of the earth, I renew my membership in the realm of God.

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"Religion NOW" is published in limited edition by the Rev. Ross E. Readhead, B.A., B.D., Certificate of Corrections, McMaster University, in the interest of furthering knowledge and participation in religion. Dialogue is invited and welcomed.