Blessing the Bread

Of all the Thanksgiving goodies that pile on top of our table, I think the bread is the least appriciated.  Why eat a dinner roll when you can carbo load on potatoes, stuffing or maybe even wild rice.  Yet, for every Thanksgiving meal I can remember, there’s been a bowl or a basket or a plate of dinner rolls.

I’m reading Making God Real in the Orthodox Christian Home by Anthony Coniaris and the chapter on Thanksgiving ends with this quote from an uncited source (anyone know?)

Be gentle when you touch bread.
Let it not be uncared for–unwanted.
So often bread is taken for granted.
There is so much beauty in bread,
Beauty of the sun and soil,
Beauty of patient toil.
Winds and rain have caressed it.
Christ often blessed it.
Be gentle when you touch bread–and thankful too!

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