Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.
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