I was brought up in a family where there were many arguments. I had heard many spoken words that were hurtful and, to be honest, nasty. As a child, I didn’t understand why this was happening, and often thought that I had caused it, as my father once told me when I was about seven that I was worse than my brother and sister put together. How does a child cope with that?
I experienced many moments of distress. My way of coping and escaping was to find one of my favourite places around the farm just to be alone … [To read more, click on title]
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Bread of Heaven
Contemplating Jesus’s self-description as “the bread of life”, or “the bread which comes down from heaven”, is a daunting business … After all, bread is bread, right? What earthly thing could be more basic and simple? What else is there to understand? Nothing. Because understanding is not the issue … [To read more, click on title]
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