Not By Bread Alone
Fifty-two Weekly Reflections on the Matters that Matter Most
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"YOUR FATHER SEES." What hopes were stirred, by all the things those words convey.
And how transfixed were those who heard them on the mountainside that day.
"YOUR FATHER KNOWS." Could that be true? That all our hopes and needs are known?
That none of us in what we do is unremembered, lost, alone?
"YOUR FATHER CARES." How long the earth had waited, yes, and longed to hear
That warrant of the soul's self-worth which stills the heart's disabling fear.
So in due season, for the one in whom the soverign chose to dwell,
We bring our thanks that through the Son, we know the Father's love as well.
And falling at his feet disclose our faith in simple, earnest prayer
In Him who HEARS and SEES and KNOWS, and holds us always in His care.
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About the Book
What was the core message of Jesus of Nazareth? It is there in the opening chapter of the gospel of Mark: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” That “kingdom,” of course, is not one of this world but one of the spirit, which Jesus stated clearly to Pontius Pilate. And just as we need food (the staple of which is bread) to live in the world, we also need spiritual food to live in the world of the spirit. The purpose of this little volume is to help provide a small ration of such food every week of the year.
From Emeritus New Testament Professor of San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Herman Waetjen: “I have found Gray’s poems to be soulful and profound. They express the pioneering of Jesus of Nazareth in a fresh and original way.”
About the Author
A former creative director of N.W.Ayer & Son, Inc., a national advertising agency, Richard M. Gray is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bucknell University. He holds a Master of Divinity degree summa cum laude from San Francisco Theological Seminary, and a PhD in higher education from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder of two schools, World College West and Presidio Graduate School. He has been married since 1943 to Catherine Hammond Gray, with whom he has two daughters and three grandchildren, and lives in Greenbrae, California, a suburb of San Francisco.