Praying for BREAD

Praying for BREAD: How to Receive Fresh Nourishment is a guide to help enhance the prayer life and daily life experience of the reader. The book is based on Matthew 6.6-13 and 31-33 with a focus on verse 11, "Give us this day our daily bread." Bread is nourishment. This is a meditation on praying for the kind of nourishment that is needed most- internal, spiritual nourishment. This is a meditation to support growing in a trust that God the Creator and Jesus Christ know what is needed and will provide, beginning first with the internal spiritual need. Each chapter includes an opportunity for personal meditation and prayer. The final chapter encourages worship and life in community. This is an invitation to the Table of Spiritual Nourishment with the Bread of Life.

Praying for BREAD. Each letter in bread is a thematic chapter for meditation with the goal of growing closer to the Divine and becoming fuller of spiritual food for life. There will be an additional chapter on the necessity of building kinship and companionship within a community. BREAD plus Vitamin C stands for B- Praying for Blessings; R- Praying for Refreshment of Radically Righteous Resources; E- Praying for the Enrichment of Enthusiasm; A- Praying to be Anchored in Jesus the Solid Rock; D- Praying and Dreaming into Your God Designed Destiny and Praying for Bread in Community: Vitamin C2- Community in Christ. The goal of this meditation is to enhance intimacy with the Divine.

The chapter on Enthusiasm has a step by step Mindfulness based meditation. Meditation is a way to specifically focus the mind and the soul in prayer. Meditation is an intentional choice to slow down the activities of life in order to focus on hearing the Divine, and being refueled for life in the exchange. This book aims to help you achieve a deeper connection, to heighten your relationships with God and with others by receiving spiritual nourishment.

This is an invitation to come to the table and let your heart, your soul, get full.