Feeding others

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To feed others means acknowledging our own hunger and at the same time acknowledging the amazing abundance we’re fed by God.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

On a path

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We are not going to sainthood here, we are just on a path.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

God of Abundance

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O God of abundance, you feed us every day.
Rise in us now, make us into your bread,
that we may share your gifts with a hungry world,
and join in love with all people,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Serving

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The thing about serving is that it’s not about you.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Perspective

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To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I’d learned, meant a practice of looking not at the centre but at the edges of things – at the unlikeliest and weakest people, not the most apparently powerful.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Conversation

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Conversation isn’t, after all, a moment: It’s a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread, A Radical Conversion

Falling in love with a revolution

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I’d learn that it’s possible to fall in love with a revolution – then doubt it, fight with it, lose faith in it, and return with a sense of humour and a harder, lasting love. I would have to learn the same thing about church when I was much older, and it would be no easier.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Feeding

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There’s hunger beyond food that’s expressed in food, and that’s why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Faith

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Faith, for me, isn’t an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion