Sleeping with Bread: Announcement

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Announcement

Over the last few weeks, I've realized that I just can't take the time to link up SWB posts. It doesn't seem like much but it does end up taking about an hour that I really don't have to spare right now.

I do hope that people will continue to write their own SWB posts. Even better it would be if you drop a link in the comments so that we know you have one up.

I will continue to post SWB weekly on my blog, Life, the Universe and Everything.

Hopefully, as I adjust to life as a grad student, I will be able to invest more time on this site.

Blessings!

Mary-LUE

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: That is such a great idea - pity I'm a little too late.

Just let it be and get your head into those books dearie.
Best wishes; September 26, 2007 4:44 PM

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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!