I’m really busy (my class is due in 1 week and I’m behind and I have to go to work everyday), but Bonhoeffer reminds me that I better enjoy dinner! This quote is from Life Together, which I read for my class (the one that is due) and officially promoted to one of my desert island/top five books.
The breaking of bread together has a festive quality. In the midst of the working day given to us again and again, it is a reminder that God rested after God’s work, and that the Sabbath is the meaning and the goal of the week with its toil. Our life is not only a great deal of trouble and hard work; it is also refreshment and joy in God’s goodness. We labor, but God nourishes and sustains us. That is reason to celebrate…..God will not tolerate the unfestive, joyless manner in which we eat our bread with sighs of groaning, with pompous self- important busyness, or even with shame. Through the daily meal God is calling us to rejoice, to celebrate in the midst of our working day.
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