Broken Bread and Poured-out Wine (a poem)

"We took . . .
and blessed
and broke . . . "
the Scriptures say,
the bread
with which those hungry folk
were fed
that day.

* * *

And by this simple act
--so oddly His --
two, bewildered
by their loss
(whose Life had died
upon a cross,
pierced by nail and sword);
those two, eyes opened,
saw in this
their Risen Lord.

* * *

Lord,
when I dread
to be broken bread
and poured out wine
for You,
to satisfy man's hunger,
quench man's thirst,
remind me
how You blessed it
first.


~~ Ruth Bell Graham
(from her book of poetry, "Sitting by my laughing fire . . . ")
(Word Books, 1977)

(Scriptures referred to:
Matthew 14:19
Luke 24:30)