Sleeping with Bread: Monday, December 15th

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Monday, December 15th

Well... here is the host post for this week. It has been an incredibly busy day and I just remembered I needed to get this post up.

10 days until Christmas!! I cannot believe how fast it is going. This last week is one that has definitely had its ups and downs. I don't have any obligations tomorrow, so I plan on getting my own post up, which I've missed the last couple of weeks AND visit all of yours.

As crazy as the first two weeks of December has been, I am looking forward to the next couple of weeks. My shopping is almost done, the kids have one more week of school, and I am looking forward to a relaxed few days before Christmas.

I hope your holiday plans, whatever they are, in whatever way you celebrate the holiday, are going well.

Mary-LUE

P.S. If Mister Linky isn't showing up, leave your post link in the comments or come back later and try again. I've found that sometimes the problem is at Mister Linky and we just have to wait for him to sort it out.

3 comments:

Mel said...: TEN DAYS?!

Omgosh.......

<-- still has prezzies to buy and wrap!

AUGHH!!!!!!!!; December 15, 2008 3:37 AM
Tara Lamont said...: Presents - done.
Wrapping and cookies no!
T; December 15, 2008 7:43 AM
Unknown said...: Late, late, late... but done. This one had some tough bits to it.; December 16, 2008 10:51 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!