Here's a list of things we should test... 1) Worldwide floods 2) Seas parting at the command of a person 3) talking snakes, donkeys, and bushes 4) People spontaneously turning into pillars of salt 5) a few loaves of
bread and some wine feeding thousands 6) instantaneous healing of disease 7) worlds forming in 6 days 8) words forming on stone tablets without the assistance of a living creature 9) people walking on water 10) resurrection on command
Not exact matches
If Jesus could multiply fish
and loaves of
bread to
feed hungry people,
and turn water into
wine to give people more to drink, what's the harm in transforming a few stones into
bread to satisfy his own hunger?
It seemed to me as if, in all he did that evening at the table, he too was finding meaning
and enlightenment, as if, in breaking
bread and pouring
wine, our Lord himself was being led — as we were through him — into a new
and richer comprehension, into a full
and final revelation that this, of course, was why it must be so — that only as a grain of wheat falls to the ground
and dies can it arise again
and bring forth ripe new grain to form the loaf that
feeds a hungry world.
So I suppose that on Ascension Day, I best quit standing here staring at the bottoms of your feet, Jesus,
and instead get to work —
feeding, fellowshipping, healing, teaching, loving, hosting, sharing, breaking
bread and pouring
wine.
Whether they
fed on him by faith in their hearts with thanksgiving by eating the
bread and drinking the
wine with «him at meal, or whether they gratefully permitted him to wash
and dry their feet before the meal in anticipation of being cleansed by his blood on the cross, the meaning of both symbols was the same: We are saved from sin
and transformed into new creatures in Christ Jesus only as we freely
and gladly receive from him the benefits of his passion
and death on the cross for our redemption.
The feast included fried calamari, grilled chicken, french fries, a salad of greens, olives
and tuna, a small loaf of whole wheat
bread, red
wine,
and finished with a dessert of Asturian cheesecake (less sweet than its American cousin
and rich with very fresh creamy cheese from a nearby, grass -
fed cow).