"As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains
and being gathered together became one,
so may Thy Church be gathered together
from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom;
for Thine is the glory and the power
through Jesus Christ for ever and ever."
-- The Didache, J.B. Lightfoot translation
Grain is gathered and ground in order to be brought together as bread. Bread is a gathering of grains. Once gathered into one loaf, it is blessed by being broken. The reason bread is made is in order to be broken. It gathers in order to be scattered again. Just as Jesus was broken on our behalf, so we are broken on behalf of others.
God gathers in order to scatter. He breaks a thing for the blessing of everything else. What ends up broken is better than it was before. It is brought together in order to be better scattered. The end of the thing is better than its beginning. Bread is grain gathered, but broken bread is grain recommissioned. We huddle in order to break.
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