Bread and transformation

When we dine together, we don't break grain.

We break bread.

By the time we can break bread, an entire culture must be in place: a culture that knows how to plow the ground, plant, cultivate the land, pray for good weather, celebrate the harvest, grind the grain, knead the dough.

A culture that can bake and cook. And then dine and dream about what the future holds.

Only then can we break bread.

Given this, it is amazing that bread is universal to all cultures. I think bread is emblematic of how God made us different from the animals.

Animals simply eat the grain that nature yields. But we humans: it is in our very nature to transform the yield of nature into something new before we can be satisfied.

Grain is good. But bread is beautiful.

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John 6.35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Luke 22.19 And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me."