Felicia, our 10-year old daughter, begins to prepare her own ham and cheese sandwich to eat for dinner. She sees the paper bag full of bread from the bakery down the road. “Oh, I hope it’s still fresh,” she sighs. “Felish, we got it on the way home this afternoon,” I respond. She sighs again and replies, “Well, yeah… but that was 3 hours ago!”
10 minutes later, I’m still laughing about it. Growing up, my idea of “fresh bread” was the bagged, sliced, sandwich bread that didn’t have mold on it yet! Obviously, my children are going to learn differently about some things as they grow up here in Chile.
This illustration is also a good reminder of why Jesus taught us to pray, “…and give us this day our DAILY BREAD…” (Matthew 6:11, NIV). Now that we live in Chile, and fresh bread is readily available and economical, we purchase a fresh portion every day. Day-old bread is chewy and stale. When teaching the Lord’s prayer, Jesus knew that we needed new, fresh bread every day. What He spoke to us yesterday was fresh for yesterday. The words He speaks to us today is our needed daily portion for today.
Be sure to take time to eat your daily portion of God’s bread!
Your turn to share: What type of bread do you usually have in your household?
July 30, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I LOVE Bread – so we always have a variety of types. Potato bread – sliced in a bag is the best for sandwiches – so soft and yummy. Crusty, warm Italian bread with loads of butter – the favorite italian or stews with a nice thick gravy. Cinnamon bread is a wonderful winter breakfast option. It warms you on a cold, snowy morning. Recently, we just tried cheese bread or for your spicy folks, jalepeno, cheese bread with chili – Wow does that wake up your senses. As you can probably tell….bread is quite the comfort food for me.
July 30, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Tell Felicia I’d send her some, but if she thinks 3 hours old is too long, 10 days from the States might really bum her out.
Hi Felicia!!!!!
July 31, 2007 at 7:27 pm
We usually have the typical pre-sliced store-bought bread. Sometimes it’s fresh and other times it’s stale and moldy, depending on how many sandwiches the kids have been eating. Once in awhile I buy fresh bread from the Martin’s bakery, but it tends to spoil way too quickly!
I really miss my mom’s homemade bread! When we were growing up, my mom made fresh bread all the time, and not with a breadmaker either! I miss that!! Must be nice having a fresh supply of bakery bread everyday!!