Blessed and Broken

Blessed Bread of Life-Be our sustinence

With your blessedness- Fill our emptiness

From grain that died and rose to life You made this living bread

Pure and without leavening And by it we are fed

As we break the bread and eat it We become broken too

As we take the food you feed us we are given life anew

For where there was only emptiness Now light and life are there

Where we were only beggars in abundance now we share

You were, for our sake- blessed and broken

Now by your power you make us blessed and broken

So as the bread we take is blessed and broken

We remember all the chains you break

Remember now the driven stake

remember we are blessed and broken in you

He is the manna on which hungry hearts feed

He'll meet you in your wilderness of need

He is all that satisfies

The filling your hungry heart desires

The unleavened bread that makes men arise

Here is the bread of Paradise

You were, for our sake- blessed and broken

Now by your power you make us blessed and broken

So as the bread we take is blessed and broken

We remember all the chains you break

Remember now the driven stake

Remember we are blessed and broken in you

June 19,1990

Anthony Foster