Meeting Our Daily Nutritional Requirementsby Michael K. Marsh |
John 6:49, 51a. "Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died….
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever."
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever."
Manna
and living bread are both necessary, because they feed two different
aspects of our lives, together offering a full range of necessary
spiritually nutritional requirements. To live on manna only is to be
bound to the physical world - declaring that our physical senses define
the limits of our world and what is real. And yet we all have physical
needs - food, water, clothing, shelter, security, rest, affection,
recreation, education, health care - that are fed by manna.
Living
bread feeds and nourishes our interior life, the transcendental and
mystical aspects of ourselves. To eat only living bread, however, is
often an attempt to escape, to idealize and spiritualize, and live in
the clouds. When this happens, we are “of no earthly value.” That surely
is not way of Jesus. Let us not allow it be our way either.
*Originally written for and published by Forward Day by Day.
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