Teach me to be bread, God (Brother Isaiah)

You feed me with the finest wheat
Now milk and honey flowing deep inside me, inside me
You feed me with the finest, feed me with the finest
You feed me with your life, your love
You feed me with the finest wheat
Now milk and honey flowing deep inside me, inside me
You feed me with the finest, feed me with the finest
You feed me with your very self

And I will be bread, he said
Food for your soul and your pilgrim way
To give you hope and let you know I’ll never leave you alone (bis)

Refrain

Drink deep of my love from this cup, he said
And take this food, it’s my flesh, it’s my blood, he said
And learn to live in me and find in me
That all you need you’ll find in me, oh child
Drink deep of my love from this cup, he said
And take this food, it’s my flesh, it’s my blood, he said
And learn to live in me and come to see
That all you need you find in me, oh child
Drink deep from my love from this cup, he said
And take this food, it’s my flesh, it’s my blood, he said
And come to learn to see
That all you need you’ll find in me, you’ll find in me, oh child
Drink deep from my love from this cup, he said
And take this food, it’s my flesh, it’s my blood, he said
And learn to live in me and come to see
That all you need you find in me, oh child

Refrain

And teach me to be bread, God,
Food for hungry hearts and empty hands
Teach me to be bread, God,
To give my life away (bis)

Refrain

To hear Brother Isaiah perform Finest Wheat, click on the video below (or on the word video highlighted here). To purchase Brother Isaiah’s new CD Shade, click here. 

Image source: Master of the Brussels Initials, Initial N: The Last Supper (ca.1389-1404), https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/7-things-to-look-for-in-paintings-of-the-last-supper/

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