Our daily bread is material as well as spiritual, coming to us through the hands of ordinary people speaking to us through human conversation even more than more mystical forms of revelation. And then, when Jesus breaks the bread, we are reminded of his body so cruelly broken for us on the cross. We take his broken body into our own broken bodies, and somehow in this moment we become the body of Christ, born again and again and again: the community through which he still speaks, the walking, talking embodiment—literally—of his Word in the world.
