One made bread pudding, another, croutons for soup.
One mashed them in milk next day for the baby’s breakfast.
The important thing was, they got to keep the crumbs,
got to bring bread home, swapping hunger for sufficiency,
sharing recipes for remainders;
that their very bodies should remember;
he was all about that.
from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets
About Rosalind C Hughes
Rosalind C Hughes is an Episcopal priest, poet, and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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