Sometimes we just can’t get enough of wanting a thing and then when we get it – we find we don’t want it any more….
…The crowd with its famished craving wants more and more feeding with healings and miracles and food. They want a sign like the manna in the wilderness to keep them fed until the hunger rises again. But Jesus wants them to understand that the bread that he gives is the bread that satisfies.
Jesus said to [the crowds], 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’ The only food which will cure our famished craving is the food he offers. Jesus invites us to consider that to become fully human, fulfilled in our life, we need to find our fullness in him. What truly enables us to be fully formed, mature people is this: having faith in the One who is the ground of our Being. …
– from my talk today, The bread of life is no fad diet – it’s all the nutrition we’ll ever need.
