Rev. Brenda Brooks-Alexander

Notice where the argument lands.

Of all the questions Israel asks in the wilderness, this one may be the most honest: “Is the Lord among us or not?”

By the time Jesus teaches His disciples to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” the manna in the wilderness has been gone for more than a thousand years.

The exception to the no-hoarding rule – on the sixth day, the people are told to gather double, and this time, when it is set aside for the Sabbath, it does not spoil.

Some instructions in Scripture sound almost too simple to need saying: Don’t save the bread.

It is worth sitting with the fact that this complaint is not new.

You have to love the drama of children when they are hungry.

My husband travels with his earbuds.

Notice what happens after the crossing.

We like to imagine that God’s deliverance always comes as an escape hatch—a way around the trouble, a way over the obstacle, a way out of the situation.