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.

Subject Keywords

Poetry

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