More about bread

Many years ago, in my first year of Reader training, there was an end of term Eucharist. The President used this as the prayer over the gifts - and I loved it, but never wrote it down, so lost track of it almost at once.
 Tonight I found it while thinking about grains, wheat and harvest....It's by David Adam. Isn't it lovely?


Be careful when you touch bread.


Let it not lie uncared for – unwanted.


So often bread is taken for granted.


There is so much beauty in bread;


Beauty of sun and soil, Beauty of patient toil.


Winds and rain have caressed it,


Christ often blessed it.


Be gentle when you touch bread.