Extend me some trust, as a fellow Christian. I will listen to your understanding of the word and you’ll listen to mine. I’ll tell you about Joseph and his fabulous coat, as he steps outside the expected norms of his day or maybe I’ll tell you about the a’dam and how God’s first human was neither man nor woman, like me. I will share the new joys I find in reading scripture and I’ll carefully hold the ones you want to share with me.

Because I love the Bible. And the Bible belongs to all of us.

Let’s trust each other with it.

 Let’s be worthy of that trust.

Jesus gives us the bread of life interrupted, the bread of new life, so that we can be fed for the road ahead of us. And Jesus breaks the bread, just as so much in our world is broken, and we receive it, just as we first received the gift of life, beautiful even in a broken world.