Lent 2025 Day 11 "I am the bread of life"
John 6: 41-51 “I am the bread of life”
Christ, the living bread that came down from heaven.
You talked about bread a lot. I mean really quite a lot; a bit more than I was expecting. And yet why not? This is the way you have always provided for us...manna from heaven, wheat and barley from the earth, your body given for us.
I imagine you as the wild yeast, invisibly and continuously fermenting the dough of our lives. Revealing your presence within us by signs of growth whenever we find the courage to expose ourselves to the warmth of each new day.
It is in the heat of the wilderness desert that the wild yeast can really get to work. In that place of grace and dependency we discover our old selves dying so that new life might bloom.
In the desert, the signs of life are not always clear and yet there they are, there you are, ever living, the wild yeast within us.
Grow within us this new day. Amen.