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In Praise of Bread

Be gentle
When you touch bread.
Let it not lie
Uncared for - unwanted.
So often bread is taken for granted.
There is much beauty
In bread
Beauty
of sun and soil,
Beauty of patient toil.
Winds and rain have caressed it,
Christ often blessed it.
Be gently
When you touch bread.

O blessed Jesus,
give me stillness of soul in You.
Let Your mighty calmness reign in me.
Rule me, O King of Gentleness,
King of Peace.
~ Saint John of the Cross

The times when Jesus was not speaking words, when he was keeping silence, these too were words. He Himself is the Word, even when He is being quiet and still and small and vulnerable. He Himself is our home, whether He is speaking audibly or being quiet. The created world is temporal, He is eternal. The goal of all that He does for us, is to conform us to His Image. Even when he is being quiet. Don't be afraid of quiet.

Your sister in Christ,
Dawn Maureen