This Day
February 19, 2010
+Martin Luther 1483-1546+
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+Martin Luther 1483-1546+
Changed By Love (by Peter Mayer)
Changed by Love
And sent to share it
When you're changed by Love
You shine the Light and wear it
In your heart in every place
Lift our hands oh God of grace
We will never be the same
We are changed by Love
It must have been 15 years ago or so when I heard Nancy Bond emphasize the phrase, “give us ‘this day’ our daily bread.” I was officiating at the table at Gethsemane Lutheran in St. Louis. Nancy was the assisting minister. We were leading the congregation in the Lord’s Prayer and she said it ever so lovely, sweetly and intentionally, “give us this day our daily bread.”
At that precise moment of hearing those words I looked down at the silver chalice which had been lovingly polished by members of the altar guild. As I stood there I saw my reflection and Nancy’s reflection upside down. It was an appropriate sign to receive for when we truly get into the “this-ness” of daily bread it turns everything upside down.
I must confess that at times I am about “next week’s bread” or even “next year’s bread.” Or what about the bread when I retire? But, Nancy’s confession and profession comes back to me whenever I pray those words, “give us this day our daily bread.”
Nancy turned things upside down, too. She now lives and works in Ghana. One really shouldn’t be surprised. For as Peter sings,
“When you're changed by Love
You shine the Light and wear it
In your heart in every place.”
To find out more about what Nancy is up to check out the link
http://www.rafiki-foundation.org/ghana/ghana.html
Martin Luther who died on this date in 1546 defined “daily bread” as
“Everything included in the necessities and nourishment for our bodies, such as food,
Drink, clothing, shoes, house, farm, fields, livestock, money property, an upright spouse, upright children, upright members of the household, upright and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, decency, honor, good friends, faithful neighbors and the like.”
WOW, that’s a lot for “this day.”
Some “daily bread” made by Chef Kurt Harvey, Camp Arcadia, Arcadia Michigan.
Have a blessed day, “this day”
Peace,
rtg
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