Daily Bread

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.

I use “Lectio Divina” (Latin for “Divine Reading”) when I study scripture.

If this Passage had been written in the 21st century, I’m pretty sure it would have included the word “hangry” [irritable or angry because of hunger].

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.

To my modern mind, the Exodus story seems improbable.