Feeding the children is much more than a matter of filling the dining table with nourishing food and drink. A loving father should also ensure that His children are provided with all their needs. Those necessities must include protection and directions to ensure that the faithful child comes to no harm.
While being aware that metaphor is a useful tool to teach the growing child, it is also a valuable aid conveying an easy understanding of what will be needed during life's journey, for those who choose to reciprocate by accepting the nourishment provided by Our Father.
The Covenant with Our Father is a quid pro quo arrangement evidencing a favour, for a favour.
The more we trust Our Father, the easier it is for the child of faith to embrace more, and more of The Father's gifts.
Invitation to the Needy
1“Come, all of you who thirst, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk, without money and without cost! 2 Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.… ~ Isaiah 55
reference:
http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061420.cfm
I quote:
not by bread alone does one live,
but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD
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Today's readings reflect on our life's journey of self discovery, inviting each of us to understand that Our Father feeds us with His life, alive in our own when we do all that He asks of us.
Food used as a metaphor provides the reader with the awareness that all our needs are being addressed, and provided for when we freely choose to follow the road that Our Father tailor makes for each human person.
Moses and his fellow Israelites spent some forty years (the predictable lifespan of the majority of people some 4000 years ago) trekking through deserts towards the promised land with all of life's needs provided for by Our Father.
"Do not forget the LORD, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that place of slavery;
Our Father invites us to follow His word, speaking from within the heart of every human person, that we may understand that He walks at our side accompanying us through our life's peaks, and troughs until journey's end.
The Eucharistic celebration that The Christ offers all who follow His Word evidences the presence of The Saviour feeding us with our heart's desire when we accept His invitation to do all that He asks of us.
Very bread, good shepherd, tend us,
Jesu, of your love befriend us,
You refresh us, you defend us,
Your eternal goodness send us
In the land of life to see.
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