Give us this day our daily bread...
This entry could be filed under multiple categories. Things I love about Switzerland and will miss when we move back to the states. Or another reason why it's hard to follow a low-carb eating plan when you live in Switzerland, as if Swiss chocolate didn't make it hard enough! Or scriptural truth that now has a new level of understanding.
I was thinking of this while I was, yet again, cutting up dried bread to make into croutons. Or yet another category: Ways to create more work for yourself, by making croutons your hubby much prefers over the store bought kind. Ah well, it's nice to be able to do something that brings joy to his day.
I have long been familiar with the Lord's Prayer, as have many people, even those with little exposure to scripture. But that phrase, "Give us this day our daily bread...." really didn't have much impact on me. I grew up in a land of weekly bread as have my children. In the states you can buy a loaf of bread on Monday and it will still be eatable on Friday. Granted, when the guys were teenagers, it didn't last until Friday, but it could have. We often bought bread from the "day old" store and then put some in the freezer, but the original package of Roman Meal Whole Grain Bread would last until we finished the last slice.
Not so here. That wonderful, still warm from having just come out of the oven, bread that I pick up at any one of the wonderful aroma of fresh-baked bread grocery stores (hence the difficulty in maintaining a low-carb lifestyle) does not last more than a day or two. After that I hold onto it to make the above-mentioned croutons. And so I find myself going to the store, if for no other reason than to get yet another loaf of bread. It truly is a day-by-day thing here, not week-by-week.
And how true it is that, day-by-day I need God and His Word. Not week-by-week, but day-by- day. I don't know about you, I don't eat it, but I prefer bread three times a day. A good analogy to my spiritual walk. It's not really just that I need the Word in the morning, but throughout my day. I need His Word for direction, for perspective, for clarity, for reminders on what's important, for strength, for correction, for encouragement. Lord, keep me in your Word. May it truly be a "lamp unto my feet and a light to my path." May I yearn for it as a "deer pants for water." Give us this day our daily bread.
Oops! Got to go, the timer just went off for the croutons and did I mention that I haven't been to the store today? Off to get bread. Make that off to get today's bread.
I was thinking of this while I was, yet again, cutting up dried bread to make into croutons. Or yet another category: Ways to create more work for yourself, by making croutons your hubby much prefers over the store bought kind. Ah well, it's nice to be able to do something that brings joy to his day.
I have long been familiar with the Lord's Prayer, as have many people, even those with little exposure to scripture. But that phrase, "Give us this day our daily bread...." really didn't have much impact on me. I grew up in a land of weekly bread as have my children. In the states you can buy a loaf of bread on Monday and it will still be eatable on Friday. Granted, when the guys were teenagers, it didn't last until Friday, but it could have. We often bought bread from the "day old" store and then put some in the freezer, but the original package of Roman Meal Whole Grain Bread would last until we finished the last slice.
Not so here. That wonderful, still warm from having just come out of the oven, bread that I pick up at any one of the wonderful aroma of fresh-baked bread grocery stores (hence the difficulty in maintaining a low-carb lifestyle) does not last more than a day or two. After that I hold onto it to make the above-mentioned croutons. And so I find myself going to the store, if for no other reason than to get yet another loaf of bread. It truly is a day-by-day thing here, not week-by-week.
And how true it is that, day-by-day I need God and His Word. Not week-by-week, but day-by- day. I don't know about you, I don't eat it, but I prefer bread three times a day. A good analogy to my spiritual walk. It's not really just that I need the Word in the morning, but throughout my day. I need His Word for direction, for perspective, for clarity, for reminders on what's important, for strength, for correction, for encouragement. Lord, keep me in your Word. May it truly be a "lamp unto my feet and a light to my path." May I yearn for it as a "deer pants for water." Give us this day our daily bread.
Oops! Got to go, the timer just went off for the croutons and did I mention that I haven't been to the store today? Off to get bread. Make that off to get today's bread.
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