I love bread,
Warm
from the oven
Spread
with real butter
And
homemade raspberry jam.
But
this morning I sat on the deck--
The
2nd floor balcony
Eating
oatmeal and a biscuit from MacDonald’s.
As
I waited for the hot air balloons to rise from the midst in front of the Sandias
I contemplated “The Bread of Life”
Jesus
said, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of
this bread, he shall live for ever.”(John 6:51)
“Jesus teaches
us, his disciples, that we should look to God each day for the bread—the help
and sustenance—we require in that particular day.” said Elder D. Todd
Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
“The Lord’s
invitation… speaks of a loving God, aware of even the small, daily needs of His
children and eager to assist them, one by one. He is saying that we can ask in
faith of that Being ‘that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and
it shall be given’ (James 1:5).”
Elder Jeffrey
R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles invites us “to join in the
adventure of the earliest disciples of Christ who also yearned for the bread of
life—those who did not go back but who came to Him, stayed with Him, and who
recognized that for safety and salvation there was no other to whom they could
ever go.”
As we looked
to the South where the balloons were supposed to launch my husband suddenly
gasped! Two large black balloons
were rising noisily from behind us, in a neighbors yard. Soon dozens of
colorful balloons were flying silently from the North unexpectedly.
Life is always
an adventure. We don’t know what will happen or like the colorful and black
balloons, from which direction it will come.
Do we want to
settle for the world’s biscuits or do we want to look for and taste the real
thing?
1 comment:
My youngest commented the other day that he had never seen a hot air balloon. He would have loved your surprise!
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