bread – 300 words a day

another letter to Jesus

Dear Jesus: This has to stop We can’t keep up. We finally found you in the synagogue. of all places. We slid in the back. It was pretty crowded (squeezing 5000 people into a building is harder than spreading out on a hillside) but we managed. We got there just in time for the reading […]

When extraordinary is ordinary.

What looks like a miracle is looking from our perspective. I mean, on my own, I cannot heal people. I can encourage them, which can feel good, but I can’t touch people and make them well. I cannot feed huge groups of people without cooking. I cannot waterski without a boat, without moving fast. I […]

enough for today

Sometimes context doesn’t matter. Things seem clear by themselves. At face value. Like a request for bread. What could be more simple? “Give me food today. (Please).” For the people hearing this prayer for the first time, the request was only partly about the future or about today. It had everything to do with the […]