It is the hunger for God. A hunger that many of us and more often our neighbors cannot even name or articulate appropriately. It is a hunger for meaning, a hunger for true life, a hunger for depth that often we and others suspect and approximate an approach but may have difficulty recognizing. This hunger for life, this hunger for God, finds its answer in this morning's word. Jesus Christ is the Living Bread that comes down from heaven and whoever eats of this Bread will live forever.
Life is enough to make a body wonder.
Sometimes I think it is exactly our wonderings that lead us to the place, that lead us again to renew our commitment to the Body of Christ. It is our wonderings, our suspicions, our hopes, our dreams, even our fears that lead us back to the God who is drawing us toward him. Life is enough to make one wonder. Businesses that took years to build through sweat and hard work are destroyed in a day by the hint of a scandal. People win the lottery.