Jesus uses strong language to...
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Jesus uses strong language to tell about "living bread." We always need strong language to jolt us out of our "easy living," where we become overly concerned with life's "bread." One world leader helps us to put things in perspective. For quite a while he was archbishop of Olinda and Recife in Northeast Brazil, the poorest and least-developed region of the country:
You Want To Be
You want to be,
excuse me,
first get free
of that excess
of goods
which cram
your whole body
leaving no room
for you and even less
for God.
-- Dom Helder Camara
The Desert is Fertile (Orbis Books, 1974), p. 23. Used by Permission
Regular "bread" can become more important than "living bread," unless we open ourselves to God's Word in Scripture and the poets/prophets of our day.
You Want To Be
You want to be,
excuse me,
first get free
of that excess
of goods
which cram
your whole body
leaving no room
for you and even less
for God.
-- Dom Helder Camara
The Desert is Fertile (Orbis Books, 1974), p. 23. Used by Permission
Regular "bread" can become more important than "living bread," unless we open ourselves to God's Word in Scripture and the poets/prophets of our day.
