Becoming Bread: Embracing the Spiritual in the Everyday

by Gunilla Norris

Overview

Just as Gunilla Norris' previous book, Being Home, garnered accolades from such spiritual writers as Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Madeline L'Engle, M. Scott Peck, and a host of others, so too will readers find in this companion book the insights that they seek in living each day as a prayer. In these powerful poems, designed around the place, process, and seasons of making and eating bread, the transformative power of love, in all its many faces, resides. In such meditations as Beginning, Place, Willingness, Gifts, Living, Discipline, Pain, Sharing, Savoring, and then into Beginning Again, the author leads us through a process of alchemy: we become the bread and we become the love transformed.

Helpful and hopeful, lyrical and resonant, Becoming Bread will be embraced by mature women and men of all faiths, including:

· retreatants and spiritual seekers.
· lovers of exquisite poetry.
· those who have suffered loss and want to find a way to understand.
· those who embrace the holy in the daily.
· those who use daily prayer and stillness as renewal.
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587680236
Publisher:	Paulist Press
Publication date:	01/02/2003
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.88(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface	xi
	Beginning	1
	Place	7
	The Kitchen	10
	At the Threshold	12
	Willingness	15
	Water	19
	The Mixing Bowl	21
	Hunger	22
	Seeing	25
	Gifts	27
	Spring	31
	Earth	32
	Measuring	33
	Salt	34
	Summer	35
	Yeast	37
	Autumn	38
	Living	39
	Mixing Dough	42
	On the Counter	43
	Rising	45
	Discipline	47
	Punching Down	51
	On the Counter Again	52
	Shaping	54
	Limits	55
	The Second Rising	56
	Pain	57
	Fire	61
	Waiting	62
	Standing Free	64
	Sharing	65
	Cooling	68
	Texture	69
	Breaking Bread	70
	Crumbs	71
	Plenty	72
	Savoring	73
	Beginning Again	77
	Dear Reader	79