Bread and roses.
Being.
Bread, being and Nora Ephron, the author, screenwriter and director of the movie, Harry Meets Sally, depicting the differences between women and men.
Witty, funny and impassioned.
That's how she was in life, death and beyond.
Bread was important for Nora.
She claimed that we had the best bread ever and yet people didn't want to eat it given the fear of getting fat. Bread in balance, like everything else in moderation matters most, the philosophers teach, and, the way's of nature, and, natural law whole-heartedly support.
A staple of life.
That's bread.
Living bread come down from Heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread.
Food from Heaven.
The abundant life comes with this "living Bread" come down from Heaven.
We break bread, share it, and open up God's Word as we unfold the food for life's trek.
Breaking bread and God's Word are two parts of the Mass, re-emphasized with the historic, ecumenical, and universal Vatican II Council fifty years ago this October when it began.
The abundant life.
Word, Bread.
Mass.
Like bread, and, the fragrance and aroma of Christ that Pauline theology addresses for each of us to be a pleasant "smell" of our God where we go each day. Like a rose's perfume, yet thorny spine and branches reminding us of the tree of the cross and the tree of Life eternal in our "passing over," given our brevity of life on Earth. Pain, joy, and more, are the mix of life to surrender, for sure, to alway and forever as pilgrim people livingout of suticases as it were unattached!
Matter and energy are not destroyed but transformed, as scientists prove. This earthen vessel, this "living temple," body, and "tent" we pitch for a time aims for the Eternal Life lasting forever when the earthy dwelling dies, like my boyhood friend, John Domenick, dying this moment with multiple internal organ dysfunction, among other maladies, in St. John Macomb Hospital in Warren, MI.
Eternal rest unto him as John let's go of this earthly life for the glorious, greater being, union and communion, recovery, God willing, with God soon.
Available to us daily for the taking, eating, breaking open the Word, and sharing Holy Communion, the Bread of Life, thanks be to God!
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First time commenter here!Thank you for blogging. It gives me a place to read and reflect in the midst of a busy day.
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