Jesus came and took the bread
and gave it to them
and did the same with the fish.
—John 21.13
Jesus had a distinctive way of sharing bread:
taking, blessing, breaking, giving.
He did it at the Last Supper,
but it wasn’t the last.
He’d done it at the Everlasting Lunch,
feeding 5000.
And now he does it at the First Breakfast,
an Easter breaking of the fast of the cross.
Resurrection is escape from every confine,
even of time and space.
In every meal, every morsel,
Jesus is so present he’s edible.
The Beloved is here, now,
though we seldom dare ask, “Who are you?”
You don’t need to ask
if you taste.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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