Sleeping with Bread: Sunday, April 15 to Saturday, April 21

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Sunday, April 15 to Saturday, April 21

I've been a bad baker and didn't get links up for last week. I've decided to start with a clean slate and go to Sunday to Saturday listing, instead of Friday to Thursday.

But, if you want to catch last week's bread, click through the list of Bakers to the left. Most of them have been baking recently.

First up this week is Mel over at Melsdream. This weeks she meditates on letting go and hanging on.

Just Jill just joined us this week for the first time. Alone-ness is her worthy topic.

Kim at Knittin' Kittens practices the Golden Rule.

atypical shares her response to the V Tech tragedy.

In spite of a caffeine buzz, I managed to share a few thoughts.

Keeping checking back for updates. I'll list the posts as I receive them.

1 comment:

j said...: I tried this meme for the first time. Hopefully, I can link correctly. Here goes!; April 16, 2007 8:08 AM

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What is Sleeping with Bread?

During the bombing raids of WWII, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were rescued and placed in refugee camps where they received food and good care. But many of these children who had lost so much could not sleep at night. They feared waking up to find themselves once again homeless and without food. Nothing seemed to reassure them. Finally, someone hit upon the idea of giving each child a piece of bread to hold at bedtime. Holding their bread, these children could finally sleep in peace. All through the night the bread reminded them, "Today I ate and I will eat again tomorrow." (Linn, Dennis et al, Sleeping With Bread, p.l)

These are the beginning words of a book that introduced me to a practice called the examen. The orphans held on to what nourished them and were thus able to sleep peacefully at night. The examen, based on the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius, helps a person hold onto what spiritually nourishes him by looking at what is giving him consolation in his life or causing him desolation. It allows someone to express his gratitude to God for the good stuff and turn to him for solace for the bad stuff. It is quite simple. You simply ask yourself, in the last day/week/month what gave me consolation and what caused me desolation.

How do you do it?

Sleeping with Bread is a Monday meme. You can participate in one of two ways: 1) Pick one of the above examen question sets and answer it in the comments section of my SWB post; or, 2) Create your own Sleeping with Bread post. You are welcome to right click on the Sleeping with Bread button and save it to your own computer before uploading into your post. Then, make sure you come back and put the link to your post in the automated Mr. Linky form at the end of the current SWB post. I hope you will join me and my fellow bakers as we Sleep with Bread on Mondays!