Fresh Baked Bread
Thursday, July 8th, 2010I am the Bread of Life
John 6:48
I was listening to BBC radio 4 yesterday and heard an interview with an Israeli drama teacher who is currently touring in the UK with a troupe of performers who are blind and deaf.
As you can imagine, this is a very challenging group to work with, not least of which is how do they connect with the audience? The answer is through the one remote sense that the audience and the actors still have in common, smell.
During the performance the actors make bread which is cooked on stage until the whole theatre is filled with the delicious aroma of new baked bread. During the making of the bread the performers talk of their hopes and dreams and what they want to happen in their lives. Through these the audience gets to understand that the people on stage, although so different in abilities, have the same human desires as the rest of us.
In the final stage one of the performers tells of how he wants a companion, a wife, and wants to get married, and how through the miracle of the stage a suitable companion is produced and so there is a wedding to which the whole audience is invited. They become the wedding guests and share the bread prepared.
Whilst listening to this it spoke to me on so many levels. We all have different abilities and we are all different, but by and large we all want the same things from life, love, happiness, security, family.
Jesus is the Bread of Life and through him we can achieve these things. But to do so we must take him in fully. If we do so then we shall be invited to the wedding. After all Jesus said that that was just what Heaven was like, a wedding party.
So I hope to see you all there for all are invited, actors and audience.
