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Sustenance

 


Sustenance.

 

“Instead of these things you gave your people food of angels, and without their toil you supplied them from heaven with bread ready to eat, providing every pleasure and suited to every taste. For your sustenance manifested your sweetness toward your children, and the bread, ministering to the desire of the one who took it, was changed to suit everyone’s liking.” (Wis. 16:20-21)

 

What is providing sustenance in your life right now?

Where are you feeling depleted?

Reflect on a time when you received sustenance at an unexpected moment. What was that like?


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