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House of Bread (Alma 7)
Title
House of Bread (Alma 7)
Book Title
The Glory of the Son
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Year of Publication
2019
Authors
Anderson, Sharon Price (Primary)
Pagination
21-22
Publisher
Time Lines Etc.
City
Orem, UT
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House of Bread
Sun scorches fields and stubble
until nothing grows but hunger.
In dust of a fainting future,
Elimelech and family flee to Moab.
Through widowed tears,
Naomi counts foreign years
on fingers of two empty hands,
one for each former son,
then learns the Lord again visits
the people of His house with bread.
Daughters-in-law divide. With
Orpah’s farewell kiss on her face
and faithful Ruth by her side,
Naomi trudges back to Bethlehem.
Bethlehem—
ground of gleaning
and bringing in the grain,
of threshing, grinding, leavening.
From kneading trough
Ruth shapes loaf and life
as wife of kinsman Boaz,
redeemed to raise inheritance
for the dead, to fill belly, heart—
Obed, Jesse, David.
Through cycles of centuries
seasons pass,
gaunt, golden, grim, fat.
Again the table is spread.
Once sheep and oxen gathered
around stone manger to be fed.
Today, we worship at the altar
in the House of Living Bread.
Poetry
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