Sleeping with Bread: Sunday, September 9 to Saturday, September 15

Monday, September 10, 2007

Sunday, September 9 to Saturday, September 15

Dymphna's Well, who has been Sleeping with Bread for a few weeks now, wrote about her gratitude for her faith.

AutumnRose, from Christ's Rose, baked some excellent bread this week as she wrote about loving others.

Kim over at Knitten Kittens is actually going through the Sleepin with Bread book right now. Her SWB post today explains a little about the practice. She then goes on to share what she is most and least grateful for this week.

One of my favorite bakers, atypical of nonsensical text, is looking for the gluten in her bread this week.

I finally got my baking apron back on after taking the summer off and wrote about feeling fragemented and whole.

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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!