Sunday, August 10, 2003
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be
hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
Orson Welles once said, "My doctor has advised me to give up those intimate little dinners for
four, unless, of course, there are three other people eating with me."
Champion archer Rick McKinney confesses that he regularly eats chocolate chip cookies for
breakfast. He refers to "the basic four food groups" as a Big Mac, fries, a shake and a lemon
tart.
A California scientist has computed that the average human being eats 16 times his or her own
weight in an average year, while a horse eats only eight times its weight. This all seems to
prove that if you want to lose weight, you should eat like a horse. (1)
Jesus said to those who followed him, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not
hunger; and he who believes in me shall never thirst." And again he said, "I am the living bread
which comes down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the
bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Are you feasting on the bread of life?
(John 6.35
NRSV)
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore, according to Andy Rooney, are the cookbooks and
the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how
not to eat any of it.
Loving God, may I feast on Jesus everyday. Amen.
