Holy Spirit, fill the scriptures with life, that when warmed by your love, they rise and fill our hearts like bread fills our bodies. Amen.
Submitted by Rev. Lucus Levy Keppel, Trinity Presbyterian Church in Bixby, Okla.
Exodus 16
confession: if only…
The whole congregation complained in the wilderness, saying
“If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of [insert your town here],
where we gathered up our wealth and ate our fill every day;
for you have brought us out into this wilderness
to kill this whole congregation with hunger.”
“Draw near to the Lord, who has heard your complaining.
Look deeper into the wilderness;
God is there, not here.
God will provide enough for each,
and the price is that no one will have too much.”
That is how you will know who your God is,
when you see whether everyone has enough.
Submitted by Rev. Doug Hagler, First Presbyterian Church, Phoenixville PA
CTW: God is a baker
One: God is a baker, providing an abundance that surpasses our hopes,
All: We come to give praise to the One who feeds and nourishes us with love.
One: God mixes and kneads, bringing together many to create one.
All: We come to be re-created, many grains into one loaf, broken for the world.
One: God is a baker who provides for the hungry, and calls us to do the same.
All: We come to be strengthened to feed and nourish others.
One: God offers us the bread of life, mysterious in its brokenness that makes us whole.
All: We come to worship the Baker who is the Bread of Life.
Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, the Presbyterian Church of Palatine, IL.
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