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Bread And Wine, By: Shauna Niequist

Bread And Wine, By: Shauna Niequist
Bread And Wine
By: Shauna Niequist
Zondervan (April 9, 2013)
288 pages

Ok. If I have not said it before, I am a Shauna Niequist fan. This book is fantastic. All Niequist’s books are. They make me want to sit by the lake without my shoes on and hold my children. This book tells stories of what makes us human. Part of that humanity, is needing bread and wine for nourishment. Is it bread and wine? Or, is it body and blood? It’s both.

Two of my favorite quotes:

What people are craving isn’t perfection. People aren’t longing to be impressed; they’re longing to feel like they’re home. If you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they’ll take off their shoes and curl up with gratitude and rest, no matter how small, no matter how undone, no matter how odd.

Sometimes people ask me why I travel so much, and specifically why we travel with Henry so often. I think they think it’s easier to keep the kids at home, in their routines, surrounded by their stuff. It is. But we travel because it’s there. Because Capri exists and Kenya exists and Tel Aviv exists, and I want to taste every bite of it. We travel because I want my kids to learn, as I learned, that there are a million ways to live, a million ways to eat, a million ways to dress and speak and view the world. I want them to know that “our way” isn’t the right way, but just one way, that children all over the world, no matter how different they seem, are just like the children in our neighborhood—they love to play, to discover, to learn. I want my kids to learn firsthand and up close that different isn’t bad, but instead that different is exciting and wonderful and worth taking the time to understand. I want them to see themselves as bit players in a huge, sweeping, beautiful play, not as the main characters in the drama of our living room. I want my kids to taste and smell and experience the biggest possible world, because every bite of it, every taste and texture and flavor, is delicious..

Buy this book.

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